Molecular Comparative Physiology / Structure and Function of Primary Messengers in Invertebrates: Insect Diuretic and Antidiuretic Peptides
Published in 1993
Book
Hardback
VIII, 180 pages
978-3-8055-5704-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the structure and function of newly discovered invertebrate peptides and potential hormones. Focus is placed on the regulators of salt and water balance in insects. In the opening chapter, Jacques Proux, who was the first to describe the structure of an insect diuretic peptide, presents his work on the arginine-vasopressin (AVP)-like diuretic hormone in the locust. The chapters which follow discuss the structure and function of other diuretic and antidiuretic peptides that have been isolated to date. The final chapter reviews the evidence for the role of these peptides in the regulation of extracellular fluid homeostasis in insects. Viewing the evolution of functional peptides from the unique perspective of invertebrate biology, this book will greatly interest biologists, zoologists and peptide chemists.
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Series
Language
German
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
43 Schaubilder, 12 Tabellen
43 figs., 12 tab.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8055-5704-7 (9783805557047)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
The oxytocin-arginine-vasopressin family of peptides in invertebrates, J. Proux; insect diuretic hormones with homology to Sauvagine/CRF/urotensin, D.A. Schooley; peptides in the house cricket, "acheta domesticus" - a possible dual control of malpighian tubules, G.M. Coast et al; chemistry and physiology of neuroparsin - an antidiuretic neurohormone of the African locust, J. Girardie and B. Fournier; insect adrenocorticotrophic hormone-like diuretic hormone, A. Rafaeli; isolation of diuretic factors from head extracts of "formica polyctena", N. De Decker, et al; the lepidopteran midgut - a model for Na+-independent solute transport, D.F. Moffett and A. Koch; excretion in the house cricket - structural and functional differences between distal and mid-tubules, J.H. Spring and I.S. Kim; extracellular fluid homeostasis in insects?, K.W. Beyenbach.