... from G. veletis , but may liberate buffered CO 2 from hemolymph. There was a transient ‘overshoot’ in CO 2 release during the first hour of recovery, and elevated metabolic rate at 24, 48 and 72 h, in crickets that had been frozen compared with crickets that had been chilled (but not frozen). Thus...

... significantly affected one-quarter of the more than 100 hemolymph metabolites defined by gas chromatography mass spectrometry analysis. Furthermore, as in mammals, which harbor complex consortia of bacterial symbionts, the metabolite signature oscillated on symbiont-driven daily rhythms and was dependent...

.... These periostial hemocytes phagocytose pathogens in the areas of the hemocoel that experience the highest hemolymph flow. Here, we investigated whether a bacterial infection affects cardiac rhythmicity in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae . We discovered that infection with Escherichia coli...

... topically with octopamine and their abdominal lipid content, HG size and HG autophagic gene expression were measured. Hemolymph lipid titer was measured to determine whether tissue degradation was associated with the release of nutrients from these tissues into the hemolymph. The HGs of octopamine-treated...

... of heart contractions and do not play a major role in hemolymph propulsion. Intravital imaging of the venous channels, the first abdominal segment and the neck revealed that hemolymph only travels through the aorta in the anterograde direction, and does so only during periods of anterograde heart flow...

... osmotic influx of water. The Malpighian tubules help maintain ionic and osmotic homeostasis by removing excess water from the hemolymph; however, the transcellular pathway for this movement remains unresolved. Aquaporins are transmembrane channels thought to permit transcellular transport of water from...

... concentration (pressure). Solute/volume plots of the ECF (hemolymph) reveal that insects tolerate large changes in all three of these ECF variables. Challenges beyond those tolerances may be ‘corrected’ or ‘compensated’. While a correction simply reverses the challenge, compensation accommodates the challenge...

...Julia M. Suggs; Talitha H. Jones; Steven C. Murphree; Julián F. Hillyer ABSTRACT Insects rely on specialized accessory pulsatile organs (APOs), also known as auxiliary hearts, to propel hemolymph into their antennae. In most insects, this is accomplished via the pulsations of a pair of ampulla...

... levels in adult mosquitoes increases the anterograde and retrograde heart contraction rates by up to 28%, and increases intracardiac hemolymph flow velocities by up to 33%. Partial CCAP knockdown by RNAi had the opposite effect, decreasing the mosquito heart rate by 6%. Quantitative RT-PCR experiments...

...) participates in processes other than reproduction: it influences hormone signaling, food-related behavior, immunity, stress resistance and longevity. The molecular basis of these functions is largely unknown. Here, we establish and compare the molecular properties of vitellogenin from honeybee hemolymph (blood...

... occurring in the anterograde direction (toward the head) and 28% of contractions occurring in the retrograde direction (toward the tip of the abdomen). The heart is tethered to the midline of the abdominal tergum by six complete and three incomplete pairs of alary muscles, and propels hemolymph...

...T. M. Clark; J. L. Lawecki; J. J. Shepherd; A. N. Hirschler; T. R. Samandu SUMMARY The role of serotonin in the regulation of larval Aedes aegypti hemolymph composition was investigated in vivo using two reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), alaproclate HCl and 6-nitroquipazine maleate, and the receptor...

... to those in the DMSO carrier control medium. Values are means± s.e.m. sodium uptake kinetics pallial fluid chemistry hemolymph ion transport active transport osmoregulation © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 12 11 2007 * Author for correspondence (e...

..., we examine the effects of temperature and thermal change on the acid–base status of the lobster hemolymph. Total CO 2 , pH, P CO 2 and HCO – 3 were measured in hemolymph sampled from lobsters acclimated to temperature in the laboratory as well as from lobsters acclimated to seasonal temperatures...

...Melissa A. Albers; Timothy J. Bradley SUMMARY We have examined the osmoregulatory capacities of laboratory populations of the insect Drosophila melanogaster by measuring hemolymph osmotic concentration during desiccation and upon recovery from a bout of desiccation. Recovery treatments entailed...

...Donna G. Folk; Timothy J. Bradley SUMMARY We have investigated water loss from, and ion regulation within, the hemolymph and tissues of five replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster that have undergone laboratory selection for enhanced desiccation resistance (i.e. the D populations). We...

... content in the intra- and extracellular compartments of the C and D populations and were able to identify the hemolymph as the primary storage site of the ‘extra’ water carried by the desiccation-resistant flies. We estimated that 68 % of the increased water volume observed in the D flies was contained...

... pattern circulate hemolymph in the developing wings and legs. This hypothesis was tested in the present study by making simultaneous electromyographic recordings of APRM activity and contact thermographic recordings of hemolymph flow in pupal wings. APRM contractions and hemolymph flow were strictly...

...A. Christine Brown; Nora B. Terwilliger ABSTRACT The in vivo oxygen-binding characteristics of Cancer magister whole hemolymph were compared across developmental stages with those of purified hemocyanin. When the 25S hemocyanins from first-instar juvenile and adult C. magister were dialyzed against...