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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Any of various aquatic, tongueless, clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus, native to southern Africa, especially X. laevis, widely used in the study of vertebrate development.
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The type of frog, known as a xenopus, is a major model used in U.S. biomedical research.
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(A) Vertebrate Ugt5 genes in teleosts and xenopus.
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The ancestral xenopus Ugt1 cluster contains the Ugt 1aI and 1aII variable exons.
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Time, Voltage and ionic concentration dependent of rectification of h - erg expressed in xenopus oocytes.
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A Quantitative analysis of the activation and inactivation kinetics of HERG expressed in xenopus oocytes.
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Please take a look at optic tectum (and xenopus laevis which I have stopped working on for the same template-related reasons).
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Houlston and colleagues then focused on the novel variant most strongly associated with colorectal cancer, and found that it resides in a DNA sequence that is conserved in many other species - so well conserved that they were able to use xenopus frogs as a model organism to test the biological consequences of this SNP.
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Please take a look at optic tectum (and [[xenopus laevis]] which I have stopped working on for the same template-related reasons).
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Collart C, Smith JC (2007) Xnrs and activin regulate distinct genes during xenopus development: activin regulates cell division.
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T (2000) Activation of protein kinase a modulates trafficking of the human cardiac sodium channel in xenopus oocytes.
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