A great deal of research suggests that octopamine functions as a neuromodulator, neurotransmitter and neurohormone in insects (Orchard, 1982; Evans, 1985; Hoyle, 1985). Especially high concentrations of this biogenic amine have been reported for neurohaemal tissue such as the corpora cardiaea and the neurohaemal organs of the medial nervous system (Evans, 1985). In the presented paper, octopami...

Clothianidin is new neonicotinoid insecticide acting selectively on insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Its effects on nAChRs expressed on cercal afferent/giant interneuron synapses and DUM neurons have been studied using mannitol-gap and whole-cell patch-clamp techniques, respectively. Bath-application of clothianidin-induced dose-dependent depolarizations of cockroach cercal af...

Adipokinetic hormone (AKH) peptides in insects serve the endocrine control of energy supply. They also produce, however, neuronal, vegetative, and motor effects, suggesting that AKHs orchestrate adaptive behavior by multiple actions. We have cloned, for Periplaneta americana, the AKH receptor to determine its localization and, based on current measurements in neurons and heterologous expression...

A primary cell culture was developed for efferent dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons of the locust. The isolated somata were able to generate Tetrodotoxin (TTX)-sensitive action potentials in vitro. The alpha-like scorpion toxin BmK M1, from the Asian scorpion Buthus martensi Karsch, prolonged the duration of the action potential up to 50 times. To investigate the mechanism of action of BmK M...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this dum spiro spero while i breathe i hope ...

At the heart of circular economy model is reorientation consumer behaviours away from disposing items before they reach end their functional life as a step towards resource efficiency and reduction environmental impacts. One way to facilitate this change enable proactive redistribution electrical electronic equipment (EEE) with reuse value urban spaces followed by high quality recycling at end-...

Er. Saiqa Khan Er. Arun Kulkarni Computer Engineering Dept., Information Technology Dept., M.H Saboo Siddik College Of Engg., Thadomal Shahani Engineering College., Mumbai, India Mumbai, India Abstract—Copy-Move forgery is a specific type of image forgery, in which a part of digital image is copied and pasted to another part in the same image. This paper describes blind forensics approach for d...

Aortic root ring sign: multimodality imaging of aortic root abscess H. Liu*, Y.-H. Juan*, Q. Wang, J. Xie, Q. Hou, H. Fei, X. Zhang, H. Zhou, C. Liang, Y.-C. Lin, R.Y. Kwong and S.S. Saboo From the Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, GuangZhou, GuangDong, China, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard M...