ABSTRACT
The importance of sulphydryls in morphogenesis is being increasingly recognized. In the study of the role of thiols in amphibian and avian development one of the methods of approach has been to subject early embryonic stages to the action of reagents such as chloroacetophenone, monoiodoacetic acid, oxidized glutathione and mercaptoethanol (Beatty, 1949; Rapkine & Brachet, 1951; Deuchar, 1957; Brachet & Delange-Cornil, 1959; Pohl & Brachet, 1962; Lakshmi, 1962a). One common effect seen in most of the above experiments is that in treated embryos the nervous system is affected, in that it remains an open thick plate.
Copyright © 1967 by Company of Biologists
1967
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