Comparative aspects of animal regeneration

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2008, Pages 525-549

  Brockes, Jeremy P ^a   Kumar, Anoop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Planaria; Salamander; Stem cells; Transdifferentiation; Zebra fish

Indexed keywords

THROMBIN;

BODY GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL REGENERATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIZATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNERVATION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE ABILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; REGENERATION; REPRODUCTION; THROMBIN; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; PLANARIA; SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 54949153140     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.24.110707.175336     Document Type: Review

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