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SUBMITTER: Crowner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473073 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crowner Anne A Khatri Shivam S Blichmann Dana D Voss S Randal SR
Frontiers in endocrinology 20190412
The Mexican axolotl (<i>Ambystoma mexicanum</i>) is an important model organism in biomedical research. Much current attention is focused on the axolotl's amazing ability to regenerate tissues and whole organs after injury. However, not forgotten is the axolotl's equally amazing ability to thwart aspects of tissue maturation and retain juvenile morphology into the adult phase of life. Unlike close tiger salamander relatives that undergo a thyroid hormone regulated metamorphosis, the axolotl does ...[more]