"Planarians" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Nonparasitic free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria. The most common genera are Dugesia, formerly Planaria, which lives in water, and Bipalium, which lives on land. Geoplana occurs in South America and California.
| Descriptor ID |
D010932
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.736.847.610
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Planarians" by people in Profiles.
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Molecular and cellular characterization of planarian stem cell microenvironments. Cell Rep. 2025 Oct 28; 44(10):116401.
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Metabolites produced by agat+ cells support regeneration in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Dev Biol. 2026 Jan; 529:106-120.
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Modified Messengers: flatworm stem cells and regeneration are guarded by RNA methylation. EMBO J. 2022 11 02; 41(21):e112435.
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Wnt and TGF? coordinate growth and patterning to regulate size-dependent behaviour. Nature. 2019 08; 572(7771):655-659.
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Long-Term, Stochastic Editing of Regenerative Anatomy via Targeting Endogenous Bioelectric Gradients. Biophys J. 2017 May 23; 112(10):2231-2243.