The team used X. laevis tadpoles to evaluate DNP's effects on a whole living organism and found that it did successfully induce a torpor-like state that could be reversed when the drug was removed ...

To investigate how this hormone might prepare juvenile amphibians for metamorphosis, the team analyzed levels of mRNA transcripts for leptin receptor proteins and for the hormone itself in tadpoles of ...

I am especially interested in the molecular pathways underlying this process. My lab studies these questions in the developing visual system of the Xenopus laevis tadpole. Because these tadpoles are ...

In a study published today (October 13) in iScience, researchers found a way to harness photosynthesis to supply neurons with oxygen: they injected either cyanobacteria or green algae into Xenopus ...

A female African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, was housed at the Biological Resources Facility of North Carolina State University in a tank with two other females. The frog was ∼1.5 years old and ...

To address these questions at the molecular level, my lab focuses on the developing visual system of the Xenopus laevis tadpole. Retinal ganglion cells in the eye project their axons to the optic ...