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Quantitative Interpretation of Transplantation Phenomena

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What is the shape of the head activation gradient in hydra? With what kinetics does the hydra head inhibition change with time after the head is removed? These questions seem to be simple ones, but they require that transplantation phenomena be interpreted quantitatively. In this chapter I discuss some problems that arise when one attempts such interpretations and present what appear to me to be the best methods of dealing with them.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Harry K. MacWilliams

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  1. Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, 92717, Irvine, California, USA

    Howard M. Lenhoff

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MacWilliams, H.K. (1983). Quantitative Interpretation of Transplantation Phenomena. In: Lenhoff, H.M. (eds) Hydra: Research Methods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0596-6_32

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