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Metamorphosis‐dependent recognition of larval skin as non‐self by inbred adult frogs (<i>Xenopus laevis</i>)
1 Jun 1993
Abstract excerpt
Larval cells in tissues of the anuran tadpole are replaced by adult cells in the corresponding tissue of the frog during metamorphosis. As an extreme example of such replacement, tissues of the tail, which have no counterpart in the adult, are completely eliminated during metamorphosis. We postulated that some immunological recognition mechanism might be involved in this specific elimination of the tail tissue....
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