Titres of biogenic amines and ecdysteroids: Effect of octopamine on the production of ecdysteroids in the silkworm Bombyx mori

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 843-851

  Hirashima, Akinori ^a   Hirokado, Shiori ^a   Ohta, Hiroto ^a   Suetsugu, Eiko ^a   Sakaguchi, Miki ^a   Kuwano, Eiichi ^a   Taniguchi, Eiji ^a   Eto, Morifusa ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Ecdysteroid; Juvenile hormone; Octopamine; Prothoracic gland

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; BRAIN EXTRACT; DOPA; DOPAMINE; ECDYSTEROID; GRAMINE; JUVENILE HORMONE; OCTOPAMINE; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; TYRAMINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; FEMALE; HORMONE INHIBITION; LARVA; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; SILKWORM;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0032806095     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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