再生能力が限られた平面体における前面再生の回復

James M Sikes1, Phillip A Newmark

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. jsikes@usfca.edu

Nature
|July 26, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,異常なWntシグナル伝達により,平面生物が再生能力を失うことを発見しました. この経路をダウンレギュレーションすることで再生が回復し,通常再生しない組織でも頭部の再生が可能になった.

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