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To test the hypothesis that neoblasts in different positions in regenerating pieces of planarians may be differentially responsive to diffusible stimuli through differentially expressed membrane receptors, we compared membrane surface proteins in blastemas induced at various positions along an anterior-posterior axis in Dugesia gonocephala (Dugès). The proteins were biotinylated and identified by molecular weight in SDS-PAGE (sodium-dodecylsulfate polyacrilamide gel electrophoresis). This SDS-PAGE pattern was then compared with that of N-glycosylated proteins incorporating 3H-mannose. One 20 kDa glycoprotein present in all blastemas at 3 d was absent from more anterior blastemas at 6 d irrespective of whether those blastemas were at the cephalic or the caudal end of the regenerating piece. The expression of this protein appears to be determined by the position of the blastema along the body axis rather than by its prospective fate.
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Ghirardelli, E., Marzari, R., Ferrero, E.A. (1991). Differences in blastema-associated proteins according to position along body axis in regenerating planarians. In: Tyler, S. (eds) Turbellarian Biology. Developments in Hydrobiology 69, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2775-2_6
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