Sphingomyelinase activity in mother's milk is essential for juvenile development: A case from lactating tsetse flies

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-

  Benoit, Joshua B ^a   Attardo, Geoffrey M ^a   Michalkova, Veronika ^a,b   Takáč, Peter ^b   Bohova, Jana ^b   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Ceramide; Glossina; Lactation; Milk; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE D; ACID SPHINGOMYELINASE 1; ACID SPHINGOMYELINASE-1; CERAMIDASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GLOSSINIDAE; HATCHING; INSECT; INTESTINE; LACTATION; LARVA; MAMMARY GLAND; MASS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERAMIDASES; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECT PROTEINS; LACTATION; LARVA; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 84869218048     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.100008     Document Type: Article

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