Muscle functions as a connective tissue and source of extracellular matrix in planarians

Regeneration and tissue turnover require new cell production and positional information. Planarians are flatworms capable of regenerating all body parts using a population of stem cells called neoblasts. The positional information required for tissue patterning is primarily harbored by muscle cells,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cote, Lauren Esther, Simental, Eric, Reddien, Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126442