Opossums
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Subject Areas on Research
- Brief communication: Forelimb compliance in arboreal and terrestrial opossums.
- Cloning and characterization of the opossum kidney cell D1 dopamine receptor: expression of identical D1A and D1B dopamine receptor mRNAs in opossum kidney and brain.
- Comparative rates of development in Monodelphis and Didelphis.
- Dental microwear and diet: implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern of Sivapithecus.
- Desensitization of DA1 dopamine receptors coupled to adenylyl cyclase in opossum kidney cells.
- Dynamics of PTH-induced disassembly of Npt2a/NHERF-1 complexes in living OK cells.
- Early development of the neural plate, neural crest and facial region of marsupials.
- Early differentiation and migration of cranial neural crest in the opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
- Elevation of cAMP is required for down-regulation, but not agonist-induced desensitization, of endogenous dopamine D1 receptors in opossum kidney cells. Studies in cells that stably express a rat cAMP phosphodiesterase (rPDE3) cDNA.
- Extreme bilateral molar rotation in Monodelphis domestica (Marsupialia: Didelphidae).
- Ezrin binding domain-deficient NHERF attenuates cAMP-mediated inhibition of Na(+)/H(+) exchange in OK cells.
- Functional and evolutionary aspects of axial stability in euarchontans and other mammals.
- GABAergic neurons of mammalian cerebral cortex: widespread subclass defined by somatostatin content.
- Heterogeneity of protein kinase C-mediated rapid regulation of Na/K-ATPase in kidney epithelial cells.
- Identification of autoantigens recognized by the 2F5 and 4E10 broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies.
- Lamellar junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum. A specialization of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum.
- M6P/IGF2R imprinting evolution in mammals.
- Origins of primate locomotion: gait mechanics of the woolly opossum.
- PTH transiently increases the percent mobile fraction of Npt2a in OK cells as determined by FRAP.
- Phylogenetic footprint analysis of IGF2 in extant mammals.
- Protein kinase A, cytosolic calcium, and phosphate uptake in human proximal renal cells.
- Sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor 1 (NHERF-1) transduces signals that mediate dopamine inhibition of sodium-phosphate co-transport in mouse kidney.
- Thalamotelencephalic projections in the turtle (Pseudemys scripta).
- True grit: a microwear experiment.