Srinivas Allanki Profile picture
PhD student in @ReischauerS group, studying organ and appendage regeneration at @jlugiessen and @mpihlr. @iitmbt Alumnus.
Sep 9, 2021 20 tweets 8 min read
I am very excited to introduce Interleukin-11 signaling as a global regulator of regeneration @ScienceAdvances! Huge thanks to @ReischauerS’s supervision and the co-authors for their support!
#regeneration #scarring #zebrafish
A thread. 1/n Regeneration and scarring are the opposing endpoints after tissue damage. Mammals predominantly mount a fibrotic response, a root cause of many diseases. In contrast, cells in regenerative species undergo reprogramming, initiating a regenerative gene program. 2/n