Immortality and the base of multicellular life: Lessons from cnidarian stem cells

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1114-1125

  Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Hoang, Van Thanh ^a   Mättner, Robert ^a   Holstein, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Hydra; Nematostella; Neurogenesis; Regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; COELENTERATE; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; METAZOA; NEMATOSTELLA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70449672330     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.09.008     Document Type: Review

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