Morphological and functional recovery of the planarian photosensing system during head regeneration

Zoological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 275-283

  Inoue, Takeshi ^a,b   Kumamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Okamoto, Keiji ^b,c   Umesono, Yoshihiko ^b   Sakai, Masaki ^a   Alvarado, Alejandro Sánchez ^d   Agata, Kiyokazu ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuronal maturation; Neurotrophic factor; Planarian; RNAi; Visual system

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPUTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; LIGHT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TURBELLARIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPUTATION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES; HEAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PLANARIA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 2642550897     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.21.275     Document Type: Article

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