Periplaneta Americana
Electrical interactions between photoreceptors in the compound eye of Periplaneta americana
... In this work, we investigated electrical interactions between photoreceptors of the compound eye of Periplaneta americana. Cockroach ommatidia contain two spectral classes of photoreceptors, narrow-band ...
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EVIDENCE FOR HYDRATION DEPENDENT CLOSING OF PORE STRUCTURES IN THE CUTICLE OF PERIPLANETA AMERICANA
... how Periplaneta americana cuticle can quickly change permeability to water by invoking a relatively simple response in known cuticular structures, rather than resorting to complex properties of the cuticle ...
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Laboratory behavioural assay of insect magnetoreception: magnetosensitivity of Periplaneta americana
... Cockroaches Periplaneta americana L. were kept in translucent plastic buckets with a wire mesh in the lid. Diet consisted of cat food pellets; a vessel with wet cotton wool was permanently present. The ...
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Localization of regenectin in regenerates of American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) legs
... Int J Dc\' BioI 35 83 90 (1991) 83 Original Article Localization of regenectin in regenerates of American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) legs TAKEO KUBO', KIYOSHI KAWASAKI', YOSHIAKI NONOMURA'and S[.] ...
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Dopamine stimulates salivary duct cells in the cockroach Periplaneta americana
... A colony of Periplaneta americana (Blattodea, Blattidae) was reared at 27 °C under a 12 h:12 h L:D regime. The animals had free access to food and water. Imagines of both sexes were used. The salivary ...
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Characterization of Recombinant Per a 10 from Periplaneta americana
... Cockroach allergen is a major risk factor for IgE-mediated allergic response and asthma in sensitized individuals. Serine pro- teases have been identified from various sources and characterized as major allergens. The ...
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Antennal movements reveal associative learning in the American cockroach Periplaneta americana
... Experiments were performed using adult male American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana L.), raised in a laboratory colony maintained on water and cat food (IAMS, Dayton, OH, USA). The cockroaches were kept ...
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A Quantitative Study of Potassium Movements in the Central Nervous System of Periplaneta Americana
... Using the electrical response of giant axons in the isolated abdominal nerve cord of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, as an indication of the ionic composition of the fluid bathing [r] ...
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Anti-tumor effects of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana
... Periplaneta americana, more commonly known as the American cockroach, is the part of Insecta class, Dicty- optera order, and Blattidae ...P. americana can also be used to treat infan- tile ...
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Evidence against Hormonal Control of Integumentary Water Loss in Periplaneta Americana
... Hormonal inhibition of integumentary water loss has been proposed on the basis of increased weight loss following decapitation in Periplaneta americana Treherne & Willmer, 1975a,6.. Some[r] ...
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Regulation of Ions in the Haemolymph of the Cockroach Periplaneta Americana During Dehydration and Rehydration
... As a pure carbohydrate diet causes the fat body tissue to be low in urate and high in lipid, it appears that during dehydration Na+ is only taken up by the fat body in animals which show[r] ...
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Factors Controlling the Diurnal Rhythm of Activity of Periplaneta Americana L
... The appearance of this normal rhythm after implantation was not altered by the light conditions; cockroaches were tested in continuous light and darkness, and in reversed light and darkn[r] ...
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The Nutrition of the Central Nervous System in the Cockroach Periplaneta Americana L
... In the cords isolated in the radioactive haemolymph glucose, together with some reduced amounts of glutamic acid, accumulated in addition to the trehalose; the cords placed in the high-g[r] ...
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The Nutrition of the Central Nervous System in the Cockroach Periplaneta Americana L
... a, neural lamella; 6, perineurium cells with massed mitochondria; c, outer glial cells with mitochondria, small fat droplets and vacuoles in the cytoplasm; d, large ganglion cell with Go[r] ...
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The uptake of L glutamate by the central nervous system of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana
... The weight changes of isolated abdominal nerve cords incubated in the sodium-free saline based on Yamasaki & Narahashi 1959, and those observed during incubations in the sodium-free sali[r] ...
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The Mode of Action of the Corpus Cardiacum on the Hind Gut in Periplaneta Americana
... Pericardial cells which have been exposed to homogenates of the corpus cardiacum exhibit argentaffin granules Davey, 1962, a property which they share with indolalkylamine-producing cell[r] ...
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Histological and electrophysiological Studies On The Giant Axons Of The Cockroach Periplaneta Americana
... Thus in Plate zd the connective on the right side of the picture shows complete absence of the dorsal group and survival of two ventral fibres, while on the left side only a single giant[r] ...
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Electrolyte Movement in the Isolated Midgut of the Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana L )
... In this location it is most likely that sodium ions would be pumped out of the cells into the haemolymph in exchange for potassium ions, since in vivo the sodium concentration is relativ[r] ...
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Visual and Multimodal Interneurones in the Ventral Nerve Cord of the Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana
... Compound-eye ipsilateral tonic ON-unit This unit is typically initiated from a previously silent unit, but if there is a dark discharge stimulation of the contralateral compound eye inhi[r] ...
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Experimental Disruption of the Blood Brain Barrier System in an Insect (Periplaneta Americana)
... The observation that an equivalent reduction in spike amplitude can occur following urea treatment would tend to minimize this possibility, since application of hypertonic urea solution [r] ...
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