Xenopus oöcyte, like the COS cells of cercopithecus or the Sf9 cells of lepidoptera, also constitute a system of expression compatible with patch-clamp techniques used in electrophysiological characterization of ion channels. |
In Xenopus also there is a minute epipubis similar to that of Urodeles. |
The effects of mercury, commonly applied as mercuric chloride, were first assessed on plant aquaporins that had been functionally expressed in Xenopus oocytes. |
Recent studies in Xenopus have shown a role for DNA replication in the recruitment of topoisomerase II to the chromosomes to facilitate condensin assembly and condensation. |
Susan Cohen-Cory and colleagues studied DHA's effect in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. |
Metaphase spindles with replicated mitotic chromosomes were assembled in meiotic Xenopus egg extracts as described. |