First signalling pathway of the digestive lineage in planarians better understood
Friday, May 20, 2016 - 12:01
in Biology & Nature
A scientific study describes for the first time the function of a signalling pathway –particularly, the pathway of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) - in the differentiation of the planarian digestive lineage. EGFR pathway, evolutionarily preserved, has a fundamental role when regulating the cell differentiation and proliferation in lots of organisms (such as mammals’ neural stem cells) and it is over-activated in most of human cancers.