scholarly journals Periodic albinism of a widely used albino mutant of Xenopus laevis caused by deletion of two exons in the Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome type 4 gene

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Fukuzawa
2005 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Natsuga ◽  
Masashi Akiyama ◽  
Tadamichi Shimizu ◽  
Tamio Suzuki ◽  
Shiro Ito ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Teng Liu ◽  
Yefeng Yuan ◽  
Dayong Bai ◽  
Xingfeng Yao ◽  
Tianjiao Zhang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 103583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mohammed ◽  
Nadia Al-Hashmi ◽  
Samiya Al-Rashdi ◽  
Nashat Al-Sukaiti ◽  
Kawther Al-Adawi ◽  
...  

Development ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
T. Fukuzawa ◽  
H. Ide

It is still unknown why dermal melanophores disappear during larval development, and why no or very few epidermal melanophores appear during and after metamorphosis, in Xenopus laevis showing periodic albinism (ap). To elucidate these points, we investigated (1) the occurrence of depigmentation in mutant (ap/ap) melanophores during in vitro proliferation and (2) the incidence of melanophore differentiation from mutant melanoblasts in the skin in vitro. During in vitro proliferation of mutant melanophores, ap-type melanosomes decreased in number gradually and instead the number of premelanosomes increased in the cells, which caused depigmentation at the light microscopic level in the culture. Depigmentation was observed only in mutant melanophores, and not in wild-type (+/+) melanophores. These results suggest that autonomous depigmentation of mutant dermal melanophores is the cause of the disappearance of these cells in vivo. Dopa-positive melanoblasts were demonstrated in both wild-type and mutant skins. However, the melanoblasts of metamorphosed mutant froglets did not differentiate in vitro, while those of wild-type froglets did. These results suggest that mutant melanoblasts in the skin of froglets lose the potency to differentiate into melanophores, and that this causes the lack of mutant melanophores in the froglets. The site of action of the ap gene is also discussed.


Platelets ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Vincent Michaud ◽  
Mathieu Fiore ◽  
Valentine Coste ◽  
Yoann Huguenin ◽  
Jean-Claude Bordet ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 1022-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjan Huizing ◽  
Yair Anikster ◽  
Diana L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Anna B. Jeong ◽  
Maria D’Souza ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Sandrock-Lang ◽  
Ingrid Bartsch ◽  
Nina Buechele ◽  
Udo Koehler ◽  
Carl Philipp Simon-Gabriel ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 127A (2) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther B. Bachli ◽  
Thomas Brack ◽  
Elisabeth Eppler ◽  
Thomas Stallmach ◽  
Ralph M. Trüeb ◽  
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