Pharmacological characterization of a Bombyx mori alpha-adrenergic-like octopamine receptor stably expressed in a mammalian cell line.

abstract：:Many studies have documented the involvement of eicosanoids in insect cellular immune responses to bacteria. The use of the fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana as a nodulation elicitor, with inhibition of phospholipase A(2) by dexamethasone, extends the principle to fungi. This study also provides the first evidence of...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lord JC,Anderson S,Stanley DW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of acetylcholine and cholinergic ligands have been studied using dorsal midline neurones from the rnetathoracic ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana.Both nicotine and oxotremorine depolarized dorsal midline neuronal cell bodies.Dose-response curves for nicotine and oxotremorine saturated at diff...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Bai D,Erdbrugger H,Breer H,Sattelle DB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two predatory fly species, Lispe consanguinea Loew, 1858 and L. tentaculata DeGeer, 1776, inhabit the supralittoral zone at the shore of a fresh-water reservoir. Both species look alike and possess similar "badges," reflective concave silvery scales on the face. Flies occupy different lek habitats. Males of the first ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Frantsevich L,Gorb S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid transfer particle (LTP) is present in hemolymph of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta. Biosynthesis of LTP, occurrence in hemolymph, and the role of LTP-apoproteins in the lipid transfer reaction were investigated using antibodies specific for LTP or for each of the apoproteins. In vitro protein synthesis follow...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Van Heusden MC,Yepiz-Plascencia GM,Walker AM,Law JH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant system, which is composed of multiple gene families, plays a major role in reducing oxidative damage and xenobiotic detoxification in all living organisms. We identified 50 silkworm antioxidant genes from nine gene families based on the assembled genome sequence. A comparative analysis of the antioxidant g...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Shi GQ,Yu QY,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of the Asteraceae and Hypericaceae possess secondary compounds that induce photooxidation in insect herbivores that consume them. One of the well-established modes of action of these substances is peroxidation of membrane lipids. Some herbivores counteract these defences by avoidance of light and tissues rich i...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aucoin R,Guillet G,Murray C,Philogène BJR,Arnason JT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro bioassay suitable for routine use to investigate hypertrehalosemic hormone (HTH)-dependent trehalose biosynthesis was developed for the cockroach fat body. Blaberus discoidalis fat bodies were isolated and divided so that eight matched pieces from a single tissue could be compared for multiple control and ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Keeley LL,Sowa SM,Hesson AS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein L17 (RPL17) is a core protein of the large (60S) ribosomal subunit and plays an important role in protein synthesis. In this report, a RPL17 gene was isolated from Apis cerana cerana, designated as AccRPL17. Alignment analysis showed that AccRPL17 exhibits high homology to other known RPL17s. Moreove...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Meng F,Zhang L,Kang M,Guo X,Xu B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among insects, lifespans vary over a broad range, from the short-lived mayflies to the 17-year periodical cicadas. Generally, lifespans are determined by a phase in life, the reproductive lifespan, which varies among species. Numerous pathways, such as the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway, the targ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xiong S,Yu K,Ye X,Fang Q,Deng Y,Xiao S,Yang L,Wang B,Wang F,Yan Z,Wang F,Song Q,Stanley DW,Ye G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bostrichiformia is the less known major series of Coleoptera regarding digestive physiology. The midgut of Dermestes maculatus has a cylindrical ventriculus with anterior caeca. There is no cell differentiation along the ventriculus, except for the predominance of cells undergoing apocrine secretion in the anterior re...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Caldeira W,Dias AB,Terra WR,Ribeiro AF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo treatments of female sex pheromone glands of the processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, with mass-labeled fatty acids showed that (Z)-13-hexadecen-11-ynyl acetate, the main sex pheromone component, is biosynthesized from palmitic acid by the combined action of delta-11 and delta-13 desaturases. The invol...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Arsequell G,Fabriàs G,Camps F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V-ATPases are ubiquitous proton pumps found in eukaryotes, and are important in regulating the pH of cell compartments and in creating membrane potentials. The V-ATPase creates a proton gradient that is used as an energy source for the transport of other ions. The 16-kDa proteolipid is the proton-translocating subunit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Holmes SP,Frazier SK,Pietrantonio PV

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemocyte line BTI-EA-1174-A from the lepidopteran insect Estigmene acraea responds to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) by an enhanced phagocytic reaction and a dose-dependent increase of lysozyme release [Wittwer et al., Dev Comp Immunol 21:323 (1997)]. This paper provides evidence for a strong proteolytic activ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wittwer D,Wiesner A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy (autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved catabolic process involved in physiological and developmental processes including cell survival, death, and innate immunity. Homologues of most of 36 originally discovered autophagy-related (ATG) genes in yeast have been characterized in higher eukaryotes inclu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tindwa H,Jo YH,Patnaik BB,Noh MY,Kim DH,Kim I,Han YS,Lee YS,Lee BL,Kim NJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A P-element mobility excision assay was used to determine if non-drosophilid insects could support P gene vector function. Present studies included the testing of Muscids, Sphaerocerids, and Phorids, none of which were able to support P mobility. A new excision indicator plasmid was developed allowing the detection an...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Handler AM,Gomez SP,O'Brochta DA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster glutathione S-transferase D3 (DmGSTD3) has a shorter amino acid sequence as compared to other GSTs known in the fruit flies. This is due to the 15 amino acid N-terminal truncation in which normally active amino acid residue is located. The work has made use of homology modeling to visualize the...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vignesvaran K,Alias Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone (JH) allows larval molting in response to ecdysteroids but prevents the switching of gene expression necessary for metamorphosis. I first review our efforts to isolate the nuclear receptor for JH in the larval epidermis of Manduca sexta using photoaffinity analogs and our recent findings that the mole...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Riddiford LM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolymph of each noctuid species successfully parasitized by Chelonus near curvimaculatus possessed a parasitism-specific protein (PSP) previously identified in host T. ni (Insect Biochem. 19:445;21:845). Expression of PSP occurred in a stage-specific manner in the stadium during which the host undergoes precocio...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Soldevila AI,Jones D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male German cockroaches possess secretory glands that secrete fluid into a pair of transverse depressions on the seventh and eighth abdominal tergites. We investigated the effects of altered juvenoid titer during the first part of the last instar on tergal gland secretory tissue development and the production of terga...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Saltzmann KA,Saltzmann KD,Neal JJ,Scharf ME,Bennett GW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) has become an integral part of mainstream research due to its versatility and ease of use. However, the potential nontarget effects associated with double-stranded RNAs (dsRNA) are poorly understood. To explore this, we used dsRNAs targeting the inhibitor of apoptosis (iap) gene from nine insec...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chereddy SCRR,Gurusamy D,Howell JL,Palli SR

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THQ (1-aroyl-4-(arylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline) compounds were identified by FMC Corporation in cell-based assays that used ecdysone receptors from Drosophila melanogaster, Heliothis virescens, or Plodia interpunctata. THQ compounds showed weak insecticidal activity against H. virescens and, therefore, were no...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Palli SR,Tice CM,Margam VM,Clark AM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) that are bound to the egg surface of a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens are void of nucleic acid and unable to infect host tissue but instead provide a passive protection against the host's immune recognition. To investigate evolutionary and functional properties of Venturia particles, we ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Theopold U,Krause E,Schmidt O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding two different epoxide hydrolases (nCfEH1 and nCfEH2) were cloned from a cDNA library prepared from the wandering larval stage of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. Predicted translations of the open reading frames indicated the clones encoded proteins of 464 (CfEH1) and 465 (CfEH2) amino acids. These ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Keiser KC,Brandt KS,Silver GM,Wisnewski N

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trypsin inhibitor purified from the seeds of the Manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce (PDTI), was studied for its effects on growth parameters and developmental stages of Helicoverpa armigera. PDTI exhibited inhibitory activity against bovine trypsin (∼86%; ∼1.33 ug/ml IC50). The inhibitory activity of PDTI was una...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Pandey PK,Singh D,Jamal F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) functions in lipid transport and immune activation in insects. We cloned a cDNA encoding putative apoLp-III from larvae of Thitarodes pui, a host species of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, with great economic importance in the Tibetan Plateau. Excluding a putative signal peptide of the first 20 ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sun Z,Yu J,Wu W,Zhang G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen 5-phenyloxazoles (5POs) were examined for their ability to modulate adenylate cyclase by measuring cAMP produced in head membrane homogenates of fifth instar larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Among the compounds tested, 5-(4-methoxyphenyl)oxazole (9) and the 2,6-dichlorophenyl congener showed the highest ac...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Khan MA,Nakane T,Ohta H,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular activities of K+, H+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and Cl-, measured with ion selective microelectrodes in the oocyte and the nurse cells in ovarian follicles of Hyalophora cecropia, indicated that a Ca2+ current is a key component of the electrical potential that is maintained across the intercellular bridges connecting...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Woodruff RI,Telfer WH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The southern green stink bug (SGSB, Nezara viridula) is an emerging polyphagous pest in many regions of the world. RNA interference (RNAi) is a valuable method for understanding gene function and holds great potential for pest management. However, RNAi efficiency is variable among insects and the differences in transp...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Gurusamy D,Howell JL,Chereddy SCRR,Koo J,Palli SR

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prothoracic glands (PGs) taken from the last instar of the common armyworm, Pseudaletia separata, were cultured in various media for the purpose of finding a suitable medium for relatively long-term culture of PGs. Among the tested culture media, MGM-450 medium without serum was the best to maintain PG cells viabl...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Komiya K,Agui N,Mitsuhashi J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have analyzed the changes of the ovarian nutritional resources in Dipetalogaster maxima at representative days of the reproductive cycle: previtellogenesis, vitellogenesis, as well as fasting-induced early and late atresia. As expected, the amounts of ovarian lipids, proteins, and glycogen increased ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Leyria J,Fruttero LL,Aguirre SA,Canavoso LE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00