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SUBMITTER: Owlarn S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5741630 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Owlarn Suthira S Klenner Felix F Schmidt David D Rabert Franziska F Tomasso Antonio A Reuter Hanna H Mulaw Medhanie A MA Moritz Sören S Gentile Luca L Weidinger Gilbert G Bartscherer Kerstin K
Nature communications 20171222 1
Despite the identification of numerous regulators of regeneration in different animal models, a fundamental question remains: why do some wounds trigger the full regeneration of lost body parts, whereas others resolve by mere healing? By selectively inhibiting regeneration initiation, but not the formation of a wound epidermis, here we create headless planarians and finless zebrafish. Strikingly, in both missing-tissue contexts, injuries that normally do not trigger regeneration activate complet ...[more]