Publications by authors named "Ayumi Myouga"
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- Researchers investigated whether grafting proximal blastemas to various distal locations could lead to this type of duplication, using transgenic newts that glow under specific light to differentiate between donor and host cells.
- The findings revealed that grafting proximal blastemas to stylopod (upper limb area) did not cause duplication; instead, it allowed parts of the limb to be restored by host cells, showing that newts can correct positional disorders during limb regeneration.
Urodele newts have the remarkable capability of organ regeneration, and have been used as a unique experimental model for more than a century. However, the mechanisms underlying regulation of the regeneration are not well understood, and gene functions in particular remain largely unknown. To elucidate gene function in regeneration, molecular genetic analyses are very powerful.
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