The regenerating mouse ear
โ Scribed by Ellen Heber-Katz
- Book ID
- 115647482
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1084-9521
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## Abstract Rabbits are unique among mammals in that their ears can regenerate tissues from the margins of full thickness holes which grow in and completely fill the opening in about two months. The circular blastema that forms around the edges of the hole differentiates a new sheet of cartilage as
## Abstract Holes punched in the ears of rabbits are repaired by regeneration of new tissues from blastemas found on the periphery of the wounds. The proportion which successfully regenerated was greater in males than in females (75% vs 20%), in pregnancy than during estrus or lactation (75% vs 25%