{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Tanaka HV"],"funding":["NEI NIH HHS"],"pagination":["11069"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4820895"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"pubmed_abstract":["The newt, a urodele amphibian, is able to repeatedly regenerate its limbs throughout its lifespan, whereas other amphibians deteriorate or lose their ability to regenerate limbs after metamorphosis. It remains to be determined whether such an exceptional ability of the newt is either attributed to a strategy, which controls regeneration in larvae, or on a novel one invented by the newt after metamorphosis. Here we report that the newt switches the cellular mechanism for limb regeneration from a stem/progenitor-based mechanism (larval mode) to a dedifferentiation-based one (adult mode) as it transits beyond metamorphosis. We demonstrate that larval newts use stem/progenitor cells such as satellite cells for new muscle in a regenerated limb, whereas metamorphosed newts recruit muscle fibre c"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["A developmentally regulated switch from stem cells to dedifferentiation for limb muscle regeneration in newts."],"pmcid":["PMC4820895"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 EY010540","EY10540"],"pubmed_authors":["Tanaka HV","Ng NCY","Casco-Robles MM","Tsonis PA","Chiba C","Maruo F","Yang Yu Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A developmentally regulated switch from stem cells to dedifferentiation for limb muscle regeneration in newts.","description":"The newt, a urodele amphibian, is able to repeatedly regenerate its limbs throughout its lifespan, whereas other amphibians deteriorate or lose their ability to regenerate limbs after metamorphosis. It remains to be determined whether such an exceptional ability of the newt is either attributed to a strategy, which controls regeneration in larvae, or on a novel one invented by the newt after metamorphosis. Here we report that the newt switches the cellular mechanism for limb regeneration from a stem/progenitor-based mechanism (larval mode) to a dedifferentiation-based one (adult mode) as it transits beyond metamorphosis. We demonstrate that larval newts use stem/progenitor cells such as satellite cells for new muscle in a regenerated limb, whereas metamorphosed newts recruit muscle fibre c","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Mar","modification":"2025-04-26T02:15:09.455Z","creation":"2019-03-27T03:11:13Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4820895","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27026263"],"doi":["10.1038/ncomms11069"]}}