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Glucocorticoid receptor is required for survival through metamorphosis in the frog Xenopus tropicalis.
General and comparative endocrinology - 15 May 2020
Sterner Zachary R, Shewade Leena H, Mertz Kala M, Sturgeon Savannah M, Buchholz Daniel R
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Stress hormones, also known as glucocorticoids, are critical for survival at birth in mammals due at least in part to their importance in lung maturation. However, because air breathing is not always required for amphibian survival and because stress hormones have no known developmental impact except to modulate the developmental actions of thyroid hormone (TH), the requirement for stress hormone signaling during...
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