Title |
From wound response to repair – lessons from C. elegans
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Published in |
Cell Regeneration, February 2021
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DOI | 10.1186/s13619-020-00067-z |
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Authors |
Yicong Ma, Jing Xie, Chandra Sugiarto Wijaya, Suhong Xu |
Abstract |
As a result of evolution, the ability to repair wounds allows organisms to combat environment insults. Although the general process of wound healing at the tissue level has been described for decades, the detailed molecular mechanisms regarding the early wound response and rapid wound repair at the cellular level remain little understood. Caenorhabditis elegans is a model organism widely used in the field of development, neuroscience, programmed cell death etc. The nematode skin is composed of a large epidermis associated with a transparent extracellular cuticle, which likely has a robust capacity for epidermal repair. Yet, until the last decades, relatively few studies had directly analyzed the wound response and repair process. Here we review recent findings in how C. elegans epidermis responds to wounding and initiates early actin-polymerization-based wound closure as well as later membrane repair. We also discussed some remained outstanding questions for future study. |
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