Stem cells are differentially regulated during development, regeneration and homeostasis in flatworms

Developmental Biology

Volumn 334, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 198-212

  De Mulder, Katrien ^a,b   Pfister, Daniela ^a   Kuales, Georg ^a   Egger, Bernhard ^a   Salvenmoser, Willi ^a   Willems, Maxime ^b   Steger, Jessica ^a   Fauster, Katja ^a   Micura, Ronald ^a   Borgonie, Gaetan ^b   Ladurner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolution; Germline; Neoblasts; Piwi; Planaria; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

MACPIWI PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM LINE; HOMEOSTASIS; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGENERATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; STARVATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 69949148776     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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