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Darkened Xenopus tadpoles appeared with neurochemical agents
Eiji Sato1, Kiyoshi Shibata, Yi-Xin Wu
1Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu-shi, Handa-chou 1-20-1, 431-3192, Japan. satoeij1@hama-med.ac.jp
Journal of Environmental Biology
|September 17, 2003
Abstract:
Skin darkened tadpoles sometimes appear spontaneously. Darkened was artificially induced in Xenopus larvae by yohimbine or chlorpromazine. These phenomena look like that are seen at pinealectomized or hypothalamus separated Xenopus larva. In this experiment, such a morphological color changed Xenopus larva is suggested by cause of inhibition of alpha2-adrenargic receptor or dopamine receptor from gastrula stages.