Sentences with phrase «planarian photosensitivity»
This very interesting manuscript describes remarkable parallels between planarian photosensitivity and that observed in human porphyrias.
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Our results establish planarians as an experimentally tractable animal model for research into the pathophysiology of acute porphyrias, and potentially for the identification of novel pharmacological interventions capable of alleviating porphyrin - mediated photosensitivity or decoupling dieting and fasting from disease pathogenesis.
The authors discovered a striking photosensitivity of planarian body pigmentation, namely that prolonged light exposure results in depigmentation in planarians.