Neoplasm Case Study

As aware of by most, one of the leading diseases that is causing a threat to our society currently is cancer. The prevalence of this disease is overwhelming and the treatment is possible; however, there is still need for further investigation into the cause of this disease before ¬¬¬¬¬it is thoroughly understood. Through increasing research there has been a connection made that cancer is the result of cells that continually replicate and causes for neoplasm to develop at an alarming rate (2). Neoplasm is the growth of unwanted tissue in some part of the body and is one of the signs of cancer (4). This experiment aims at trying to understand one of the possible mechanisms for this continuous tissue growth.
When observing the factors that play a part in cancer development, there are two …show more content…
The latter has been increasingly studied and it has been found that the disruption of the circadian clock has been related to disorders in humans, such as cancer (2). The focus of this experiment is the role of a specific circadian clock gene on the ability to regenerate cells in planarian. Even prior to birth, from humans down to microscopic bacteria, there are a number of genes that dictate the nearly twenty-four-hour rhythm that develops a process which controls one’s physiology, behavior, and even gene expression, this process is known as the organism’s circadian rhythm (2). Of the many organisms that contain these circadian genes, the one organism that coordinates their rhythm in an interesting manner is the freshwater planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea), which is the model for this experiment. The planarian is a flatworm that eternally maintains its juvenile stage and has a very impressive ability to regenerate, which makes them an excellent model for use in the