neoblast

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English

Etymology

From neo- +‎ -blast.

Noun

neoblast (plural neoblasts)

  1. A large, undifferentiated cell of annelid worms that participate in regeneration of lost parts
    • 2015 May 8, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban et al., “Digital gene expression approach over multiple RNA-Seq data sets to detect neoblast transcriptional changes in Schmidtea mediterranea”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
      To trigger neoblast proliferation and differentation, two days head and tail regenerating animals were used for the preparation of the libraries.

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