Novel structural elements identified during tail resorption in Xenopus laevis metamorphosis: Lessons from tailed frogs

Developmental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-252

  Elinson, Richard P ^a   Remo, Ben ^b   Brown, Donald D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamorphosis; Notochord; Slow muscle; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; PROTEINASE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LOSS; ENZYME RELEASE; FAST MUSCLE; FIBROBLAST; FROG; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CELL; SLOW MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; TADPOLE; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; XENOPUS;

ANURA; ASCAPHUS TRUEI; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033571393     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9481     Document Type: Article

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