Insect Neurochemistry And Neurophysiology 1989 (experimental And Clinical Neuroscience)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Neuropeptides: Unity and Diversity, a Molecular Approach....Pages 3-37 Isolation Techniques for Insect Neuropeptides....Pages 39-62 Insect Neurodevelopment: Gene Cascades in Drosophila....Pages 63-103 Modulation and Repair of the Insect Blood-Brain Barrier....Pages 105-126 Drug Design....Pages 127-161 Insect Neuroendocrinology: Its Past; its Present; Future Opportunities....Pages 163-203 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Overview: Progress in Insect Neurochemistry....Pages 207-210 Bombyx Eclosion Hormone....Pages 211-214 Expression of the Eclosion Hormone Gene in the Brain of Manduca Sexta ....Pages 215-218 Sequencing and Biological Activities of Neuroparsins Isolated from Corpora Cardiaca of Locusta Migratoria ....Pages 219-222 Isolation and Structure of Three Neuropeptides from the Corpora Cardiaca of the American Cockroach....Pages 223-226 Isolation, Purification and Characterization of a Diuretic Peptide (AP-I) from the House Cricket, Acheta Domesticus ....Pages 227-230 Members of the AKH/RPCH-Peptide Family in Coleoptera....Pages 231-234 Structures in the AKH Family of Neuropeptides....Pages 235-238 Quaternary Structure and Hydrophobic Interactions of Drosophila Acetylcholinesterase in Wild Type Flies and in Mutants of the Ace Locus....Pages 239-242 Insect Hypertrehalosemic Hormone: Structure-Activity Studies in Periplaneta americana ....Pages 243-246 Insect Hypertrehalosemic Hormone: Structure-Activity Studies in Blaberus discoidalis ....Pages 247-250 The Role of Mosquito Oostatic Hormone in the Regulation of Midgut Serine Proteases....Pages 251-254 Recent Developments in the Use of HPLC for the Purification of House Fly Oostatic Hormone....Pages 255-258 Characterization of Testis Ecdysiotropin (TE) from Brains of Lepidoptera....Pages 259-262 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Binding of Synthetic Dipteran Neuropeptide Preparations to Head and Abdominal Proteins of 3-Day Old Face Flies....Pages 263-266 Neuropeptide Metabolism: Properties of an Endopeptidase from Heads of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 267-269 Degradation of Dipteran Neuropeptides by Musca autumnalis ....Pages 271-274 Metabolism of Inositolphosphates in the Cerebral Ganglia of the American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana L.....Pages 275-279 Tyramine- β - Hydroxylase Activity in the Synganglion of the Cattle Tick Boophilus Microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)....Pages 281-284 An Ecologically Acceptable Strategy for the Use of Genetically Engineered Baculovirus Pesticides....Pages 285-288 Overview: Progress in Insect Neurophysiology....Pages 291-294 Gene Expression during Pupal-Adult Neurogenesis in Manduca Sexta ....Pages 295-298 Receptivity Terminating Factor in Heliothis Zea and its Interaction with PBAN....Pages 299-302 Regulation of Sex Pheromone Biosynthesis in Chrysodeixis chalcites and Heliothis peltigera by PBAN....Pages 303-307 Stimulation of de novo Pheromone Biosynthesis by In Vitro Pheromone Glands of Heliothis SPP ....Pages 309-312 Regulation of Sex Pheromone Titer in Mated Gypsy Moth Females....Pages 313-316 Changes in Number and Size of Corpus Allatum Cells of Blattella germanica during Oocyte Maturation....Pages 317-320 Patterns of Corpora Allata Activity in Ovariectomized Blattella germanica ....Pages 321-324 Protein Kinase C and Calcium are Involved in the Action of Juvenile Hormone on Follicle Cells of Rhodnius Prolixus ....Pages 325-328 Voltage-Dependent Sodium and Calcium Channels of the Corpora Allata of the Cockroach Diploptera Punctata ....Pages 329-332 Juvenile hormone production by wild type and apterous 4 mutant Drosophila melanogaster corpora allata in vitro....Pages 333-336 Developmental Profile of Prothoracicotropic Hormone (PTTH) Activity in the Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar ....Pages 337-340 Endocrinology of Embryogenesis and Late Embryonic Diapause in the Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar ....Pages 341-344 Prothoracicotropic Hormone (PTTH) Regulation of the Larval Pupal Molt in the Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar : Observations on the Development of a Larval in Vivo Bioassay....Pages 345-348 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Developmental Profiles for the Regulation of Ecdysteroid Production by the Prothoracic Glands of Female Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar , Pupae....Pages 349-352 Developmental Changes in Lymantria Dispar (L.) Prothoracicotropic Hormone Activity from Embryo to Adult....Pages 353-356 Prothoracicotropic Hormone and Ecdysteroid Ketoreductase from Pre-Hatch Eggs of the Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar ....Pages 357-360 Ecdysiotropins and Ketoreductase in the Brain of the European Corn Borer, Ostrinia Nubilalis Promote the Production of Ecdysone and 3-Dehydroecdysone by Prothoracic Glands of the Gypsy Moth. Lymantria Dispar .....Pages 361-364 Molt Inhibition by Azadirachtin; Effects on Prothoracicotropic Hormone, Prothoracic Glands and Ecdysteroid Titers in Manduca Sexta Pupae....Pages 365-368 Metabolic Changes in the Nerve Tissue of the Silk Worm, Bombyx Mori Following Repeated Topical Application of Endosulfan....Pages 369-372 Precocene II Suppresses the Biosynthesis of Juvenile Hormone, Ecdysteroids and Vitellogenin in the Black Blowfly, Phormia Regina Meigen....Pages 373-376 Regulation of Vitellogenesis in Gypsy Moth, Lymantria Dispar (L.), Fifth-Instar Larvae....Pages 377-380 6-Hydroxydopamine Retardation of Ovarian Development in the Housefly, Musca Domestica L.....Pages 381-384 The Hypolipaemic Hormone of the Locust....Pages 385-388 Demonstration of a Human Atrial Natriuretic Peptide-Like Material in the Stable Fly, Stomoxys Calcitrans ....Pages 389-392 Diuresis in Adult Heliothis Zea : Neural and Humoral Regulation....Pages 393-396 Characterization of FMRF-Amide-Like Peptides in the Locust, Schistocerca Gregaria....Pages 397-400 FMRF-Amide in the Corn Earworm ( H. Zea ): Immunoreactivity in the Midgut and Cerebral Nervous System....Pages 401-404 Uptake and Binding of Ponasterone A in the Brain of Fifth Stadium Manduca Sexta Larvae....Pages 405-408 The Role of Ecdysone on the Chitinase Enzyme in the Development of Spodoptera Litura ....Pages 409-412 Prospective Chemical Regulators of Female Reproductive Muscle Function in the Stable Fly Stomoxys Calcitrans ....Pages 413-416 Serotonergic Modulation of the Locust Mandibular Closer Muscle....Pages 417-420 Octopaminergic Modulation of Sense Organs Involved in Locust Flight....Pages 421-424 Overview: Progress in Insect Neuroanatomy and Neurogenesis....Pages 427-430 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Ultrastructure of a Sensory Receptor in the Abdominal Body Wall of Rhodnius Prolixus ....Pages 431-434 The Association of Proctolin with the Female Reproductive Tissue of Rhodnius Prolixus ....Pages 435-438 Serotonin-Like Immunoreactive Dorsal Unpaired Median Neurons in Rhodnius Prolixus ....Pages 439-442 Immunocytochemical Localization of Leucomyosuppressin (LEM-MS) in the CNS of the Cockroach, Leucophaea Maderae and the Stable Fly, Stomoxys Calcitrans ....Pages 443-446 A Vasopressin-Like Neurohemal System in Lymantria Dispar and Manduca Sexta ....Pages 447-450 Histocytochemical Identification of Neurosecretory Cells in the Brain of Short Horned Grasshopper....Pages 451-454 Back Matter....Pages 455-479 This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology (ICINN'89), which was held at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, on July 10-12, 1989. The ICINN meetings were ini tiated in 1983 at a time when insect neurobiology was emerging as a vigorous sector of entomology, requiring a degree of attention and autonomy long before granted to its sister field, vertebrate neurobiol ogy. The distinctly medical aspects of the latter were replaced by potentiali ties for developing new approaches to insect control, and the difference was reflected in the kind of sponsorship that has made the ICINNs possible. It is to the credit of the sponsors of the present con ference, i. e., Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agri culture, American Cyanamid, BASF, Dow Chemical USA, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Monsanto, Nippon Soda, Rohm and Haas, and Sandoz Crop Protection, that they recognized the need for providing a forum for specialized scientific presentations as well as a medium by which ideas and information could be exchanged directly and cooperation could be planned. As in the previous conferences in 1983 and 1986, the ICINN'89 program contained state-of-the-art plenary lectures or reviews by invited speakers as well as shorter research communications pre sented orally or as posters. The latter two are included here in three sections: neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and neurophysiology