REGENERATION

A CORNER OF CYBERSPACE FOR MOTHER NATURE'S SECOND CHANCES

1. Muscle Regeneration in Mammals

• For General Audiences
  • Human Muscle Does Regenerate!
    --- an Asa Zook Dialogue
• Scientific Articles
  • Colchicine inhibits it
  • Genotype influences it
  • Blocking DNA synthesis (with phleomycin) prevents it
  • Actinomycin D can arrest it
  • Enhancement: certain drugs elevate it in injury and in dystrophy
  • Ethylene inhalation enhances it, too
  • Myogenesis and DNA Synthesis
  • Independence of Myogenesis from Chondrogenesis: retinoic acid induces extensive changes in skeletal development without conrurrently affecting the morphogenesis of the musculature in the regenerating limbs of Ambystoma larva.
• Special Features:
  • The Regenerating Myotube
  • X-rays: what does ionizing radiation do to mammalian muscle regeneration?
  • Update on the Muscle Regeneration Literature: 1995-1996
  • Update on the Muscle Regeneration Literature: 1996-1997
  • Interleukins, Growth Factors and Integrins -- a survey of the recent scientific literature
  • Regeneration of Smooth Muscle: the recent literature

2. The Blastema

• Spallanzani's Cone
  --- an Asa Zook Dialogue about regeneration of the little salamander's arms and legs
• Regeneration and Memory -- are they analogs of each other?

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