Regeneration studies in India

Abstract

Regeneration is a challenging area for studies in Developmental Biology. Although this phenomenon in animals was discovered more than 200 years ago the active interest of biologists in this field dates back to only the last decade of the 19^th century. In India the interest in regeneration as in other areas of developmental biology is even more recent. Active research in this field has been carried out at different laboratories for about the last 25 years mainly on regeneration in Hydra, lizards and anuran amphibians. The aim of this brief is to indicate the broad liunes of such studies in these animals and the major findings.