http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/regeneration Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 18:52:25 -0400 Tue, 05 May 2026 18:52:25 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/866/a-study-of-planarian-phototaxis-tactile-response-and-regeneration By Sahil Aggarwal - The Dugesia flatworm (also known as a planarian), along with all worms in the Platyhelminthes phylum, is an acoelmate with no blood vascular system, making the worm an anatomically simple organism that relies on diffusion for all its transport needs. The most notable anatomical features of the planarian are a ciliated epidermis, a centralized brain with nerve chords extending throughout the rest of the body, various muscle fibers responsible for movement, and a ventrally-located mouth with a protrusible pharynx that brings algae, bacteria, and protozoans into a digestive syncytium (Rupert et al... Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:15 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/866/a-study-of-planarian-phototaxis-tactile-response-and-regeneration http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/845/genome-profile-of-ambystoma-mexicanum By Patrick Wu - The Ambystoma mexicanum, commonly known as the axolotl, possesses extraordinary regenerative abilities and is capable of reconstituting limbs, retina, liver, and even minor regions of the brain (Muneoka et al., 2008). At the most elementary level, regeneration is mediated by a cascade of epigenetic processes. With the aid of recent advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), a study was conducted to identify and sequence the gene expression responsible for axolotl regeneration. Tissue samples from denervated limbs and regeneration blastema of 36 axolotls were sequenced by Illumina. Following... Sat, 21 Dec 2013 02:28 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/845/genome-profile-of-ambystoma-mexicanum http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/840/alternative-methods-to-autologous-nerve-grafting-for-the-regeneration-of-the-peripheral-nervous-system By Patric Glynn - Neurons are able to effectively regenerate over short distances without any help. However, when the gap they must regenerate across is too wide, a graft is needed to guide the neuron and to prevent the formation of a neuroma [3]. Regeneration is most successful when the severed axons are able to successfully grow through the remnants of the site where the original connection was. In order to help aid in the regrowth of longer gaps a technique called "nerve grafting" is used [4]. Without such grafts, these injuries may never fully heal, and can be permanently debilitating. With the use of these... Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/840/alternative-methods-to-autologous-nerve-grafting-for-the-regeneration-of-the-peripheral-nervous-system