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SUBMITTER: Morokuma J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5469732 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morokuma Junji J Durant Fallon F Williams Katherine B KB Finkelstein Joshua M JM Blackiston Douglas J DJ Clements Twyman T Reed David W DW Roberts Michael M Jain Mahendra M Kimel Kris K Trauger Sunia A SA Wolfe Benjamin E BE Levin Michael M
Regeneration (Oxford, England) 20170401 2
Regeneration is regulated not only by chemical signals but also by physical processes, such as bioelectric gradients. How these may change in the absence of the normal gravitational and geomagnetic fields is largely unknown. Planarian flatworms were moved to the International Space Station for 5 weeks, immediately after removing their heads and tails. A control group in spring water remained on Earth. No manipulation of the planaria occurred while they were in orbit, and space-exposed worms were ...[more]