Regulation of the Cytoskeleton Study Section Movies
Timelapse analysis of two sibling Xenopus leavis embryos undergoing neurulation. Click on each thumbnail to see a full-size QuickTime movie. (Each movie requires Apple's QuickTime player. Download the QuickTime player for PC or Macintosh from Apple.)
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| N-cad MO neurulation Movie |
N-cad MO neurulation
The time-lapse movie below shows two sibling Xenopus leavis embryos undergoing neurulation. The embryo in left is an uninjected control, the embryo in right has been depleted of N-cadherin protein in the neural plate using an antisense morpholino. In the N-cadherin depleted embryo, the neural plate fails to undergo invagination and remains open. Due to the pushing forces applied by the unaffected non-neural ectoderm, a distinct lip like structure appears surrounding the N-cadherin depleted neural plate. |
