Digestive enzyme compartmentalization and recycling and sites of absorption and secretion along the midgut of Dermestes maculatus (Coleoptera) larvae

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Caldeira, Waldir ^a   Dias, Alcides B ^a   Terra, Walter R ^a   Ribeiro, Alberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apocrine secretion; Digestive enzymes; Enzyme compartmentalization; Enzyme recycling; Exocytosis; Membrane bound enzymes; Serine proteinases

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; ENZYME; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE SECRETION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CHITIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; ENZYMES; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINAL SECRETIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

BOSTRICHIFORMIA; COLEOPTERA; DERMESTES MACULATUS;

EID: 33846466000     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: 15206327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.20153     Document Type: Article

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