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. 2023 Sep 25;33(18):R947-R950.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.024.

Regeneration: Signaling superhighways

Fei Sun  1 , Alessandro De Simone  2 , Kenneth D Poss  3
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Regeneration: Signaling superhighways

Fei Sun et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Regeneration requires the collective effort of multiple organ systems. A recent study of planarian whole-body regeneration finds that Erk kinase activity propagates rapidly across the entire animal through longitudinal muscle cells to coordinate animal-wide wound responses and that this signal propagation is required for regeneration.

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