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where can I find Information about cells that are in g0 phase and why are they there
Thanks for using AllExperts. A complete description of G0 would require more space and more detail than I'm able to provide here, so allow me to direct you to sites that can answer your question more fully. It is fairly well-known what G0 phase consists of, but it is less clear why cells enter this state in the first place. It is an area of current research, along with the mechanisms by which cells enter and leave G0.
This is an outline of cell reproduction, with some short descriptions of the G0 phase:
http://frodo.marshall.edu/~adkinsda/b120ch11.htm
The textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell (Alberts et al.) discusses the topic in some detail. You can probably find this book in a college library.
There's a longer and more complete discussion of G0 in the book Hormones and Vitamin in Cancer Treatment by Aurel Lupulescu. You can find it through Google Books; the relevant discussion starts on pages 80-81.
Finally, for primary research papers, you can search the PubMed website with "G0 phase" in the search field:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed
The first link is a general overview, but the latter two links go into quite a bit of detail. Good luck!
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