neoblast

neo- +‎ -blast

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:10.1186/s12864-015-1533-1:

     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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