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Fig. 2. The Xenopus animal cap explant procedure. SyntheticmRNAencoding a
potential regulator of cardiac development is injected into the fertilized Xenopus
egg at the one cell stage. When the embryo has reached the blastula stage,
the animal cap (ectodermal tissue overlying the blastocoel cavity) is carefully
removed using fine forceps and it placed into explant culture. After an appropriate
period in culture, the cap tissue and is subjected to appropriate assays for gene
expression. Reprinted from [68] with permission from Elsevier. Image published in: Warkman AS and Krieg PA (2007) Copyright © 2007. This image is reproduced with permission of the publisher and the copyright holder. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Larger Image Printer Friendly View |