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Descriptor English: Ambystoma mexicanum
Descriptor Spanish: Ambystoma mexicanum
Descriptor Ambystoma mexicanum
Entry term(s) axolotl
Scope note: Salamandra que se encuentra en las los lagos montañosos de Méjico y que constituyen aproximadamente el 30 por ciento de los urodelos utilizados en investigación. El ajolote permanece en estado larvario toda su vida, fenómeno conocido como neotenia.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ambystoma mexicanum
Descriptor French: Ambystoma mexicanum
Entry term(s): Ambystoma mexicanums
Axolotl
Axolotls
Mexican Salamander
Salamander, Mexican
mexicanums, Ambystoma
Tree number(s): B01.050.150.900.090.608.080.068.525
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000558
Scope note: A salamander found in Mexican mountain lakes and accounting for about 30 percent of the urodeles used in research. The axolotl remains in larval form throughout its life, a phenomenon known as neoteny.
Annotation: NIM with no qualifiers when an experimental animal
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CL classification
EM embryology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IN injuries
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
SU surgery
UR urine
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Ambystoma (1972-1980)
Public MeSH Note: 1991; see AMBYSTOMA 1981-1990; for AXOLOTL see AMBYSTOMA 1972-2009
History Note: 1991(1981); for AXOLOTL use AMBYSTOMA 1972-2009
DeCS ID: 559
Unique ID: D000558
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/04/02
Revision Date: 2016/06/28
Ambystoma mexicanum - Preferred
Concept UI M0000873
Scope note A salamander found in Mexican mountain lakes and accounting for about 30 percent of the urodeles used in research. The axolotl remains in larval form throughout its life, a phenomenon known as neoteny.
Preferred term Ambystoma mexicanum
Entry term(s) Ambystoma mexicanums
Axolotl
Axolotls
Mexican Salamander
Salamander, Mexican
mexicanums, Ambystoma



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