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 ...

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 ...

Their first experiment seemed to bear this out. After the team snipped the tails off tadpoles of the western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis), they observed increased glucose levels in the ...

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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 ...