The majority of the 3.8 million estimated annual traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the United
States are mild TBIs, or concussions, and they occur primarily in adolescents and young …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has drawn national attention for its high incidence and
mechanistic complexity. The majority of TBI cases are “mild” in nature including concussions …

Discovery of temporal and spatial patterns of gene expression is essential for understanding
the regulatory networks and development in multicellular organisms. We analyzed the …

Abstract Background The African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis are
prominent animal model organisms. Xenopus research contributes to the understanding of …

Even though the foundation of systems biology approaches to cardiac function was led more
than fifty years ago, there has been slow progression over the last few decades. Systems …

Vertebrate eyes begin as a small patch of cells at the most anterior end of the early brain
called the eye field. If these cells are removed from an amphibian embryo, the eyes do not …

Xenopus is a versatile model organism increasingly used to study organogenesis and
genetic diseases. The rapid embryonic development, targeted injections, loss-and gain-of …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNAs around 22 nucleotides long. They inhibit
gene expression either by translational repression or by causing the degradation of the …

Neural stem cell research suffers from a lack of molecular markers to specifically assess
stem or progenitor cell properties. The organization of the Xenopus ciliary marginal zone …

Abstract The Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is a high-valued economic
farming species. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology …