Saponins do not affect the ecdysteroid receptor complex but cause membrane permeation in insect culture cell lines

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-23

  De Geyter, Ellen ^a   Swevers, Luc ^b   Soin, Thomas ^a   Geelen, Danny ^a   Smagghe, Guy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caspase 3 like activity; Cell viability; Cholesterol; DNA fragmentation; Ecdysteroid response; Membrane permeation; Quillaja saponaria; Saponin; Schneider S2 insect cells

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CHOLESTEROL; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSTERONE; SAPONIN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SIGNALING; STEROID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLESTEROL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSTERONE; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SAPONINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; QUILLAJA; QUILLAJA SAPONARIA; SAPONARIA;

EID: 84855189243     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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