Publications
RNAi in Planarians
Stem Cells in Planarian
Metazoan Regeneration



Immunohistochemistry
Allometry
Behavior
 

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998

Scientific Correspondence Newspaper Articles and Editorials

2008 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2008) Stem Cells: Time to Check Our Premises Cell Stem Cell, 3:25-9


Kenneth D. Birnbaum and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2008) Slicing Across Kingdoms: Regeneration in Plants and Animals Cell, 132:697-710


2007 Return to top
Kyle A. Gurley, Jochen C. Rink and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2007) ß-Catenin Defines Head Versus Tail Identity During Planarian Regeneration and Homeostasis Science, 319:323-327 (Editor's Choice)


Jason Pellettieri and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2007) Cell Turnover and Adult Tissue Homeostasis: From Humans to Planarians Annual Review of Genetics. 41:83-105.


Brandi Cantarel, Ian Korf, Sofia M. C. Robb, Genis Parra, Eric Ross, Barry Moore, Carson Holt, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, and Mark Yandell (2008) MAKER: An Easy-to-use Annotation Pipeline Designed for Emerging Model Organism Genomes. Genome Research, 18:188-196 (e-publication date: November 19, 2007)


Peter W. Reddien, Adam L. Bermange, Adrienne M. Kicza and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2007) BMP signaling regulates the dorsal planarian midline and is needed for asymmetric regeneration. Development. 134:4043-4051 ( See Journal's Preview )


Sofia M.C. Robb, Eric Ross and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2008) SmedGD: the Schmidtea mediterranea Genome Database Nucleic Acids Research, 36:D599-D606, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm684 (e-publication date: September 18, 2007)


2006 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Panagiotis A. Tsonis (2006) Bridging the Regeneration Gap: Genetic Insights from Diverse Animal Models Nature Reviews | Genetics. 7:873:884.


Allan Spradling, Barry Ganetsky, Phil Hieter, Mark Johnston, Maynard Olson, Terry Orr-Weaver, Janet Rossant, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Robert Waterston (2006) New Roles for Model Genetic Organisms in Understanding and Treating Human Disease: Report From The 2006 Genetics Society of America Meeting. Genetics 172(4): 2025–2032.


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2006) Planarian Regeneration: Its End is Its Beginning Cell. 124(2):241-5.


2005 Return to top
Peter W. Reddien, Néstor J. Oviedo, Joya R. Jennings, James C. Jenkin, and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2005) SMEDWI-2 Is a PIWI-Like Protein That Regulates Planarian Stem Cells Science. 310:1327-1330.


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Hara Kang. (2005) Multicellularity, stem cells, and the neoblasts of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea Exp. Cell Res.. 306:299-308. 


Peter W. Reddien, Adam L. Bermange, Kenneth J. Murfitt, Joya R. Jennings and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2005) Identification of Genes Needed for Regeneration, Stem Cell Function, and Tissue Homeostasis by Systematic Perturbation in Planarians Developmental Cell. 8:635-649.  ( See Journal's Preview )


2004 Return to top
Peter W. Reddien and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2004) Fundamentals of Planarian Regeneration Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 20:725-757. 

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2004) Planarians Current Biology. 14:R737-8.    


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2004) Regeneration and the need for simpler model organisms Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B 359: 759-763.   


Takeshi Inoue, Hiroshi Kimamoto, Keiji Okamoto, Yoshihiko Umesono, Hiroshi Kimamoto, Masaki Sakai, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Kiyokazu Agata (2004) Morphological and Functional Recovery of the Planarian Photosensing System during Head Regeneration Zoological Science. 21: 275-283.     


2003 Return to top
Phillip A. Newmark, Peter W. Reddien, Francesc Cebrià and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2003) Ingestion of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA inhibits gene expression in planarians Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 100 (Suppl 1): 11861-5.     


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2003) The freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea: embryogenesis, stem cells and regeneration Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 13:438-444.    (Planarian Laying Egg Movie)


Néstor J. Oviedo, Phillip A. Newmark, and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2003) Allometric Scaling and Proportion Regulation in the Freshwater Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea Developmental Dynamics. 226:326-333.  


2002 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Phillip A. Newmark, Sofia M. C. Robb and Réjeanne Juste (2002) The Schmidtea mediterranea database as a molecular resource for studying platyhelminthes, stem cells and regeneration Development. 129:5659-5665.  


Francesc Cebrià, Chiyoko Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Umesono, Masumi Nakazawa, Katsuhiko Mineta, Kazuho Ikeo, Takashi Gojobori, Mari Itohk, Masanori Tairak, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Kiyokazu Agata (2002) FGFR-related gene nou-darake restricts brain tissues to the head region of planarians Nature. 419:620-624.  


Sofia M.C. Robb and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2002) Identification of immunological reagents for use in the study of freshwater planarians by means of whole-mount immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy Genesis:Journal of Genetics and Development. 34(4):293-298.  


Phillip A. Newmark and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2002) Not Your Father's Planarian: A Classic Model Enters The Era of Functional Genomics Nature Reviews | Genetics. 3:210-220.  


2000 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2000) Regeneration in the Metazoans: Why Does it Happen? BioEssays. 22:578-590.  


Phillip A. Newmark and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2000) Bromodeoxyuridine Specifically Labels the Regenerative Stem Cells of Planarians Developmental Biology. 220:142-153.  


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (2000) The Case for Comparative Regeneration: Learning from Simpler Organisms How to Make New Parts from Old e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine. 1: 31-36.  


1999 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Phillip A. Newmark (1999) dsRNA Specifically Disrupts Gene Expression During Planarian Regeneration Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 96: 5049-5054.  


Phillip A. Newmark and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (1999) Planarian Regeneration Embryonic Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Nature Publishing Group, London.  


1998 Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado and Phillip A. Newmark (1998) The Use of Planarians to Dissect the Molecular Basis of Metazoan Regeneration Wound Repair and Regeneration. 6: 413-420.  


Scientific Correspondence Return to top
Newmark, Phillip. A. and Alejandro Sánchez (1997) Regeneration and scientific terminology Bioessays 19(6): 535.


Newspaper Articles and Editorials Return to top
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Invited Article: "La régénération tissulaire". Biofutur 213: 48, Paris, France, July 2001


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Invited Article: "La Nueva Biologia". El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela, February 13, 1999.


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Invited Article: "Ciencia y Mitología de la Regeneración Animal". El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela, September 12, 1998.


Alejandro Sánchez, Editorial: "Una Experimentación de Siglos." El Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela, March 9, 1997.