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7755168

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
Through a series of interrogatories, unsolved problems of antler evolution, anatomy, development, physiology, and pathology are probed, with commentaries, on the following prospects for future research: 1. How could these improbable appendages have evolved mechanisms to commit suicide, jettison the corpse, and regenerate new ones every year? 2. By what developmental processes are antlers able to prescribe their own morphogenesis with mirror image accuracy year after year and in some cases produce deliberate asymmetries? 3. What causes the scalp to transform into velvet skin as a deer's first antlers develop? 4. Why do healing pedicle stumps give rise to antler buds instead of scar tissue? 5. How is the unprecedented rate of antler elongation related to the diameter and length of the structure to be grown? 6. How come wound healing by pedicle skin is held in abeyance for several months until new growth resumes? 7. How is it that tropical deer regenerate antlers at any time of year, while in temperate zones deer do so in seasonal unison? 8. How do deer find enough calcium to make such massive antlers in only a few months? 9. What is the nature of the bizarre tumors that some antlers grow following castration?
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-276X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
241
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-302
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Future directions in antler research.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article