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Planarian Hedgehog/Patched establishes anterior–posterior polarity by regulating Wnt signaling Shigenobu Yazawa, Yoshihiko Umesono, Tetsutaro Hayashi, Hiroshi Tarui, and Kiyokazu Agata Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 December 29; 106(52): 22329–22334. Published online 2009 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907464106.

 

 The planarian flatworm: an in vivo model for stem cell biology and nervous system regeneration Luca Gentile, Francesc Cebrià, and Kerstin Bartscherer Dis Model Mech. 2011 January; 4(1): 12–19. Published online 2010 December 6. doi: 10.1242/dmm.006692.

 

 High-resolution profiling and discovery of planarian small RNAs Marc R. Friedländer, Catherine Adamidi, Ting Han, Svetlana Lebedeva, Thomas A. Isenbarger, Martin Hirst, Marco Marra, Chad Nusbaum, William L. Lee, James C. Jenkin, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, John K. Kim, and Nikolaus Rajewsky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 July 14; 106(28): 11546–11551. Published online 2009 June 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0905222106.

 

 Emerging patterns in planarian regeneration David J. Forsthoefel and Phillip A. Newmark : Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2009 August; 19(4): 412–420. Published online 2009 July 1. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2009.05.003

 

A Dual Platform Approach to Transcript Discovery for the Planarian Schmidtea Mediterranea to Establish RNAseq for Stem Cell and Regeneration Biology Martin J. Blythe, Damian Kao, Sunir Malla, Joanna Rowsell, Ray Wilson, Deborah Evans, Jamie Jowett, Amy Hall, Virginie Lemay, Sabrina Lam, and A. Aziz Aboobaker PLoS One. 2010; 5(12): e15617. Published online 2010 December 14. doi: 10.1371/journal

 

β-Catenin Defines Head Versus Tail Identity During Planarian Regeneration and Homeostasis Kyle A. Gurley, Jochen C. Rink, and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado : Science. 2008 January 18; 319(5861): 323–327. Published online 2007 December 6. doi: 10.1126/science.1150029.

 

 Spoltud-1 is a chromatoid body component required for planarian long-term stem cell self-renewal Jordi Solana, Paul Lasko, and Rafael Romero : Dev Biol. 2009 April 15; 328(2): 410–421. Published online 2009 February 9. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.01.043.

 

 Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields activate the ERK cascade, increase hsp70 protein levels and promote regeneration in Planaria Reba Goodman, Avary Lin-Ye, Matthew S. Geddis, Priya J. Wickramaratne, Susan E. Hodge, Spiro Pantazatos, Martin Blank, and Richard T. Ambron Int J Radiat Biol.: Int J Radiat Biol. 2009; 85(10): 851–859. doi: 10.1080/09553000903072488

 

Integrating positional information at the level of Smad1/5/8 Edward Eivers, Luis C. Fuentealba, and E.M. De Robertis : Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2008 August; 18(4): 304–310. Published online 2008 July 14. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.06.001

 

Linda Schneider, Michael Cammer, Jonathan Lehman, Sonja K. Nielsen, Charles F. Guerra, Iben R. Veland, Christian Stock, Else K. Hoffmann, Bradley K. Yoder, Albrecht Schwab, Peter Satir and Søren T. Christensen (2010) Directional cell migration and chemotaxis in wound healing response to PDGF-AA are coordinated by the primary cilium in fibroblasts Cell Physiol Biochem. 2010; 25(2-3): 279–292

 

Non-muscle myosin II takes centre stage in cell adhesion and migration Miguel Vicente-Manzanares, Xuefei Ma, Robert S. Adelstein, and Alan Rick Horwitz : Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2009 November; 10(11): 778–790. doi: 10.1038/nrm2786

 

 Concise Review: Polarity in Stem Cells, Disease, and Aging Maria Carolina Florian and Hartmut Geiger Stem Cells. 2010 September; 28(9): 1623–1629. Published online 2010 July 16. doi: 10.1002/stem.481.

 

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