Essays Tagged: "Wnt"

Laboratory 2: Understanding fertilization and early development in the South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis)

mphibian dorsal blastopore lip sets the dorsal-ventral axis, which depends on the initiation of the Wnt pathway by glycogen synthase kinase- molecules (Orford et. al., 1997). Many studies have shown t ... Xenopus embryos results in the halting of the cortical rotation, which in turn inhibits the dorsal Wnt pathway and later Spemann organizer formation (Langhelle et. al., 1999). The result is a ventral ...

(8 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays