Gene Expression Profiling at Early Stage of Head Regeneration in the Earthworm(Perionyx excavatus) using Expressed Sequence Tags

  • Cho, Sung-Jin (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Lee, Myung-Sik (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Eunsik Tak (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Ae (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Park, Bum-Joon (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Cho, Hyun-Ju (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Moon, Joo-Sik (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Park, Soon-Cheol (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

Among all animal species, a few have the remarkable capacity to regenerate a missing part of their body after amputation. The early process of epimorphic regeneration in which dedifferentiation and cell proliferation are involved, provides a useful model to investigate the mechanism of normal development as well as differentiation. To better understand early stage of head regeneration, we have generated 5'-end sequence of 1,592 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from cDNA library of regenerating tissue. (omitted)

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