EcR expression in the prothoracicotropic hormone-producing neurosecretory cells of the Bombyx mori brain: An indication of the master cells of insect metamorphosis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3861-3868

  Hossain, Monwar ^a   Shimizu, Sakiko ^a   Fujiwara, Haruhiko ^b   Sakurai, Sho ^a   Iwami, Masafumi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Brain; Ecdysone receptor; Metamorphosis; Prothoracicotropic hormone producing neurosecretory cell

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR A; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR B1; ECDYSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PUPATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; BRAIN; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT HORMONES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; UP-REGULATION;

BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA;

EID: 33746736200     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05398.x     Document Type: Article

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