Regeneration: From cells to tissues to organisms.
Regeneration: From cells to tissues to organisms.
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再生:从细胞到组织再到生物体。
DOI:
10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.12.005
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Zayas,RicardoM
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作者:
Echeverri,Karen;Zayas,RicardoM
The remarkable ability of some animals to replace body parts following injury has captured the imagination of humans for millennia, and has attracted scientists to explore regeneration phenomena for centuries (Dinsmore, 1991; Goss, 1969). Technological and interdisciplinary approaches have morphed regeneration science into a formidable collaborative effort aimed at understanding how cell-based strategies can be used to restore damaged or diseased tissues and organs (Stocum, 2001). The idea for a Special Issue on regeneration was conceived following a satellite symposium held at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology in Boston, MA, titled:“Evolution of regenerative abilities: recapitulation of development or novel mechanisms?” The symposium brought together prominent senior scientists and new investigators in the field of regenerative biology, who highlighted how broad application of new transgenic technologies and the accessibility of comparative genomics are opening frontiers in stem cell and regenerative biology research using classic and emerging models (Chen and Poss, 2017; Sánchez Alvarado and Tsonis, 2006). Much of the discussion centered on how the study of regeneration, at its core, shares fundamental similarities with the goal of understanding the basic principles underlying organismal development (eg, cell differentiation, morphogenesis, and tissue patterning)(Brockes and Kumar, 2008; King and Newmark, 2012; Tanaka and Reddien, 2011). However, unraveling the molecular differences that confer regenerative abilities in postembryonic organisms, such as scarless wounding, adult stem cell regulation in vivo, and the formation of the regeneration blastema, continues to attract the collective efforts of the regeneration community.The reviews and research articles in this issue tackle topics on the evolution and divergence of regenerative abilities. For example, Erickson and Echeverri discuss lessons learned on the molecular logic underlying scarless wound healing, an ability that is a crucial step in regenerative organisms (Erickson and Echeverri, 2018). Moreover, Seifert and Muneoka assess the parallels between the formation of a blastema in classical regeneration organisms like the axolotl versus recent mammalian models like the lab mouse digit tip and the African Spiny mouse ear regeneration model (Seifert and Muneoka, 2018). In contrast to vertebrates, invertebrates can display a prodigious capacity for whole-animal regeneration that is highly variable even amongst members of the same phylum, such as annelids or planarians; the review by Lai and Aboobaker discusses emergent concepts on the evolution of stem cellbased regeneration within invertebrates. Of course, a major driver of regeneration research is understanding why humans have such a limited regenerative capacity (Tanaka, 2003). In