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Medial head skin overlies bone, not muscle. A: Brightfield view of the rostral portion of a Xenopus laevis froglet. B: Whole-mount bone staining of a froglet with Alizarin red. C: The head region was stained with Elastica van Gieson and Alcian blue and sectioned through the plane indicated by the dotted line in A. Bra, brain; sku, skull. C',C”: Magnified views of the rectangles in C. The white rectangle in B indicates the medial-dorsal area of the head where the overlying skin was excised in Fig. 1. No subcutaneous muscles were observed in the medial head area C'. Open arrowheads (C”) enclose ocular muscles. A–C: Bar = 1 mm. C',C”: Bar = 100 µm. Image published in: Otsuka-Yamaguchi R et al. (2017) Copyright © 2017. Image reproduced with permission of the Publisher, John Wiley & Sons. Larger Image Printer Friendly View

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