Survival by self-digestion

Nathaniel Heintz ()
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Nathaniel Heintz: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University

Nature, 2004, vol. 432, issue 7020, 963-963

Abstract: Mammals face a problem just after birth: they are no longer nourished through the placenta, but suckling has not yet begun. How do they survive? Digestion of the animal's own cells could be the answer.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1038/432963a

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