Effects of fenoxycarb on the secretory activity of the prothoracic glands in the fifth instar of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-224

  Dedos, Skarlatos G ^a   Fugo, Hajime ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENOXYCARB; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HORMONE RELEASE; INHIBITION KINETICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030298082     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0164     Document Type: Article

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