{"id":455,"date":"2014-01-31T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T06:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=455"},"modified":"2014-05-05T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:37:06","slug":"deflate-a-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Deflate a toad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t actually a toad. It was an African Clawed Frog (<em>Xenopus laevis).<\/em> For some reason, it was referred to as a toad in the school in which it lived and I worked. It had a metabolic condition that meant that its cells took in water osmotically. As a result, it was almost spherical in shape. The sixth form Biology students and I had a ritual in which we would use a syringe to extract a cubic centimetre of fluid from the toad each day. It didn&#8217;t seem to mind but I am not sure that it made any difference to its condition.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-460\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?attachment_id=460\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-460\" title=\"xenopus0112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus0112-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"xenopus0112\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus0112-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus0112-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus0112.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-457\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/?attachment_id=457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-457\" title=\"xenopus002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus002-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"xenopus002\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus002-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus002-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/xenopus002.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enormousfish.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D455&title=Deflate+a+toad\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.enormousfish.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D455&title=Deflate+a+toad', 'freetellafriend', 'scrollbars=1,menubar=0,width=617,height=530,resizable=1,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,screenX=210,screenY=100,left=210,top=100'); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share This Post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/tell-a-friend\/button.gif\" style=\"width:127px;height:16px;border:0px;\" alt=\"Share This Post\" title=\"Share This Post\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t actually a toad. It was an African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis). For some reason, it was referred to as a toad in the school in which it lived and I worked. It had a metabolic condition that meant that its cells took in water osmotically. As a result, it was almost spherical in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,349,350,346,348,351,347,345,344],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-lab","tag-laboratory","tag-metabolic","tag-osmotic","tag-syringe","tag-toad","tag-toad-osmotic","tag-xenopus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enormousfish.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}