Fig. 1

Production of NO during wound healing and regeneration. (a) Control embryos at stage 26 were injured using a needle, or tails of tadpoles at stage 41 were amputated and incubated in media with DAF-2DA solution for 15 minutes, fixed and imaged. (b) NO is produced in the first two layers of cells around wound edge (Scale bar = 20 μm). (c, d) NO is produced mainly during first 15 minutes after injury in embryos at stage 26 (Scale bar = 100 μm, five replicates, mean with standard deviation, One-way ANOVA Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test) (e, f) and after amputation in embryos at stage 41. (Scale bars = 200 μm, three replicates, mean with standard deviation, One-way ANOVA Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test) (g) NO is not produced after injury at stage 1 and stage 5, but NO is produced after injury at stage 8 (blastula), stage 11 (gastrula), stage 14 (early neurula) and stage 20 (late neurula) (Scale bar = 500 μm). CTF – corrected total fluorescence, RFU – relative fluorescent unit, pw – post wounding, pa – post amputation **** - p < .0001, * - p < .05, n.s. - p > .05