Tissue sensitivity to thyroid hormone in athyroid Xenopus laevis larvae

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-325

  Rot Nikcevic, Irena ^a   Wassersug, Richard J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gigantism; Tadpole; Thyroid hormone; Tissue culture; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HYPOTHESIS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; TADPOLE; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE CULTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; LARVA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TAIL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0142091305     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2003.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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