A comparative immunocytochemical study using an antiserum against a synthetic analogue of the corpora cardiaca peptide Pea-CAH-I (MI, neurohormone D) of Periplaneta americana

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 284, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 401-413

  Eckert, M ^a   Gabriel, J ^a   Birkenbeil, H ^b   Greiner, G ^a   Rapus, J ^a   Gade G ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Sachsische Akad Wiss zu Leipzig   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AKH RPCH peptide family; Corpora cardiaca; Enzyme immunoassay; Immunocytochemistry; Insect brain; Periplaneta americana, Leucophaea maderae (Insecta); Tegenaria atrica (Chelicerata)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCKROACH; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT HORMONES; INSECTS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPEPTIDES; PERIPLANETA; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; CHELICERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEUCOPHAEA MADERAE; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PISUM SATIVUM; TEGENARIA ATRICA;

EID: 0030006625     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050601     Document Type: Article

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