在具有有限再生能力的平面体中恢复前部再生

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
概括

研究人员发现,异常的Wnt信号导致平面人失去再生能力. 降低这种途径的调节恢复了再生,甚至使得通常不会再生的组织能够重新生长头部.

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