TY  - JOUR
TI  - Comparison of induction during development between <I>Xenopus tropicalis </I>and <I>Xenopus laevis</I>
AU  - Sedohara, Ayako
AU  - Suzawa, Keiko
AU  - Asashima, Makoto
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - Several in vitro systems exist for the induction of animal caps using growth factors such as activin. In this paper, we compared the competence of activin-treated animal cap cells dissected from the late blastulae of Xenopus tropicalis and Xenopus laevis. The resultant tissue explants from both species differentiated into mesodermal and endodermal tissues in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, RT-PCR analysis revealed that organizer and mesoderm markers were expressed in a similar temporal and dose-dependent manner in tissues from both organisms. These results indicate that animal cap cells from Xenopus tropicalis have the same competence in response to activin as those from Xenopus laevis.
PY  - 2006
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.052021as
VL  - 50
IS  - 4
SP  - 385
EP  - 392
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/052021as
Y2  - 2024/11/24/19:17:02
ER  -