Early planarian brain regeneration is independent of blastema polarity mediated by the Wnt/β-catenin pathway

Developmental Biology

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-78

  Iglesias, Marta ^a   Almuedo Castillo, Maria ^a   Aboobaker, A Aziz ^b   Saló, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AP polarity; Axin; Brain; Planarian; Regeneration; Wnt catenin signaling

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SMED APC 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; AXIN GENE; BLASTEMA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGENERATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; TURBELLARIA;

PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 81155161904     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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