Characterization of sub-nuclear changes in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos exposed to brief, intermediate and long-term anoxia to analyze anoxia-induced cell cycle arrest

Table 2 Mitotic stage of wild-type and san-1(RNAi) embryos exposed to 30 minutes of anoxia.

	Normoxia Wild-type (%, n = 213)	Normoxia san-1(RNAi) (%, n = 353)	Anoxia Wild-type (%, n = 256)	Anoxia san-1(RNAi) (%, n = 309)
Prophase	49.77	59.49	59.38	68.28
Prometaphase	10.80	5.67	4.30	0.65
Metaphase	20.19	17.28	35.94	0.97
Anaphase	9.86	9.63	0.00	0.00
Telophase	9.39	7.93	0.39	1.29
Abnormal Nuclei	0.00	0.00	0.0	26.86
Anaphase Bridges	0.00	0.00	0.0	2.59

n = total number of mitotic blastomeres assayed from at least 50 embryos of two independent experiments.

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