Insulin stimulates ecdysteroid production through a conserved signaling cascade in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 855-860

  Riehle, Michael A ^a   Brown, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diptera; Insect; Insulin receptor; Phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase; Protein kinase B; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; BOVINE INSULIN; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTEROIDS; ENZYME INHIBITOR; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; OKADAIC ACID; ONCOPROTEIN; PERVANADATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN AKT; STEROID; VANADIC ACID; WORTMANNIN;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORMONE ACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OVARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AEDES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ECDYSTEROIDS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; INSULIN; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OKADAIC ACID; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS; VANADATES;

EID: 0033215285     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00084-3     Document Type: Article

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