Improved conditions for culture of biosynthetically active cockroach corpora allata

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 452-458

  Holbrook, Glenn L ^a   Chiang, Ann Shyn ^b   Schal, Coby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cockroach; Corpora allata; Diploptera punctata; In vitro radiochemical assay; Insect organ culture; Juvenile hormone

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CORPUS ALLATUM; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; DIPLOPTERA PUNCTATA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030941408     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-997-0063-9     Document Type: Article

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