Top 10 Most Unusual Dog and Cat Names of 2009

... Dogs Cats 1. Doogie Schnauzer MD 1. Snag L. Tooth 2. Sargent Sausage 2. clawed Monet 3. I Am Sparticus 3. Velvet Elvis 4. Lunchbox 4. Eartha Kitty 5. A...

Skin color studies on tadpoles lead to cancer advance

... species and, in the longer term, embark on the development of new drugs to fight skin cancer in humans." The species Xenopus Laevis (South African clawed frog) is more closely related to humans than one might expect. It only diverged from man 360 million years ago and has the same organs, molecules and ...

Cure for CMT

...gnificant level. It is difficult to detect the symptoms early. But as the child grows the painful condition becomes worse. Foot deformities like clawed toes, flat feet are quite common. Chronic arthritis, loss of sensation on arms and legs are also common feature of the disease. RCH pediatric ne...

Clawed in Biological News

Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader

The rusty crayfish - a voracious, bullying exotic that has visited ecological havoc on numerous Wisconsin lakes - may have finally met its match. Since its introduction to Wisconsin waters sometime in the 1950s, the crayfish has spread to thousands of lakes and streams, clear cutting the underwa...

Ferns took to the trees and thrived

...shows that there was a fourth, roughly corresponding with the development of epiphytism. So, as rain forests developed and tropical trees and vines clawed past each other to reach heavenward, they took the ferns up along with them. Thousands of new fern species evolved to take advantage of all the new ni...

NIH EUREKA award funds research at WPI aimed at turning adult skin cells into stem-like cells

...the ability to form blastemas. To accomplish this, the team placed the cells in a lab dish and exposed them to an extract from the eggs of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). In the past, this extract had been shown to activate at least one gene specific to stem cells. In the NIH project, the team ...

When threatened, a few African frogs can morph toes into claws

...r way to functionality." "Most vertebrates do a much better job of keeping their skeletons inside," he adds. Blackburn first became aware of the clawed frogs while conducting fieldwork in the central African nation of Cameroon. When he picked up one of the hulking fist-sized frogs, it flailed its hind...

How alligators rock and roll

...als to maneuver in water without actively swimming, says C.G. Farmer, an assistant professor of biology. Those animals include crocodiles, African clawed frogs, some salamanders, turtles and manatees, she adds, noting that the use of muscles to move the lungs may be incredibly important or you would not...

Leptin found to control appetite and limb development in frogs

...creted by fat cells that plays an important role in food intake, has been described for the first time in a cold-blooded vertebrate, the South African clawed frog Xenopus. As it does in humans and other mammals, leptin acts on the frog brain to suppress appetite. But the hormone also seems to play a role...

Study shows frogs can play key role in stem cell research

...pops up in wildlife documentaries, but the African clawed frog could prove a powerful ally for scientists wo...ut never from amphibians. But, because the African clawed frog is easier to study than mice and humans, the ...on of stem cells, has an equivalent in the African clawed frog, called PouV. This new research shows that th...

Clawed frog helps Fanconi anemia research make leaps

... A large, clawed frog is helping Oregon Health & Science University researchers gather a...ar Biology are the first to report a new approach using eggs of the African clawed frog, which goes by the Latin name Xenopus laevis, to understand how the Fa...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...ident of Health Sciences at WCS said, "A fungal disease called chytridiomycosis, a pathogen that has been spread by the international trade in African clawed frogs, is now threatening some 30 percent of all of the amphibian species worldwide with extinction. And even parasites on animals in the trade carry ...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

... "The Korean people, already well sensitized to the importance of their natural heritage and the symbolic value of their previously known and beloved clawed salamander, will be and should be extremely proud of such a new unique animal," Kaplan noted. "The boost to environmental awareness and education in t...

Clawed in Biological Technology

MacroChem Announces Michael Zasloff, M.D., Ph.D. Joins Company's Scientific Advisory Board

...ts to pexiganan, Michael Zasloff, M.D. has joined the company's Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Zasloff discovered magainins in the skin of the African clawed frog while at NIH (National Institutes of Health) and later pioneered the development of magainins, and specifically pexiganan, as human anti-infectiv...

Clawed in Biological Definition

Genome project

...ta the purple-spined sea urchin Caenorhabditis elegans a nematode worm Brachydanio rerio Zebrafish Xenopus laevis The African clawed toad Oryzias latipes A medakafish Takifugu rubipres A pufferfish See also model organism International HapMap Project ...

Clawed in Biological Dictionary

Xenopus

...pus genus. They are known collectively as African clawed Frogs or Platanna. The best-known species belonging to this... The African clawed frog is a species of South African aquatic frog ... xenopus n. Any of various aquatic, tongueless, clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus , native to souther...

Neurula

...euter. neutral. neutral corner. neutral equilibrium. neutral ground ... Search for " neurula " in all of MSN Encarta. E-mail this entry ... African clawed frog protein-coding gene nfrl-A. Represented by 10 ESTs from 5 cDNA libraries. ... Xenopus laevis neurula -specific ferredoxin reductase-like ... ...