Regeneration: Stem Cells and Beyond
In this issue of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology the authors present a unique range of examples of the regenerative response and the role of stem cells from the amphibian to human. It seems that all roads lead to cells that have the plastici
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Editors R.W. Compans, Atlanta/Georgia M.D. Cooper, Birmingham/Alabama H. Koprowski, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania F. Melchers, Basel · M.B.A. Oldstone, La Jolla/California s. Olsnes, Oslo · M. Potter, Bethesda/Maryland P.K. Vogt, La Jolla/California · H. Wagner, Munich
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E. Heber-Katz (Ed.)
Regeneration: Stern Cells and Beyond With 42 Figures and 11 Tables
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Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D. The Wistar Institute 3601 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
e-mail: [email protected] Cover I/lustration by ]ames Hayden, RBP and Doug Thayer: The MRL mouse ear hole (upper inset) completely closes without scarring within 30 days (lower inset). An excised ear tissue specimen is shown with abundant hair and follicles from a mouse ear unstained and visua/ized with autofluorescence.
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Preface
The word "regeneration" evokes both strange and wondrous images. This includes not only the sea-shore starfish whose severed arm quickly grows back, or the regrowth of limbs on the tails of newts, but most directly it relates to modern medicine with the image of Prometheus having his liver being eaten every night and having it grow back during the day. Perhaps the ancient Greeks saw the same starfish on Mediterranean shores and developed their myths from that. Or perhaps pharaonic physicians saw healing of old battle wounds at autopsy and noticed regenerating liver. It is of interest th
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