Planarian 'kidneys' go with the flow.
Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 26200528.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.09353 and PMC identifier 4510279.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
Flatworms have organs called protonephridia that could be used as a model system for the study of kidney disease.
Medical subject headings
- Body Fluids
- Cell Proliferation
- Cysts
- Kidney Diseases, Cystic
- Planarians
- Stem Cells