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| FranzR. Öm Er, Hans-Ulrich Bressel | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| Secretion and Metabolism of Ecdysteroids by Oenocyte-Fat Body Complexes (OEFC) in Adult Males of Gryllus bimaculatus D EG (Insecta)  | | | | Abstract
| Extracts of w hole adult males o f Gryllus bimaculatus show distinct maxima o f free ecdy steroids on the 8th, 12th and 14th day after imaginal moult at a breeding temperature of 25 °C. Isolated O EFC of 11 days old males secrete in vitro free as well as conjugated ecdy steroids, although the latter predominate. The bulk of free ecdysteroids seem s to consist of E and 20 E according to their retention times in two HPLC systems. Apart from the polar ones, apolar m etabolites appear during incubation. By esterase the apolar m etabolites are m ostly split into polar ones, partly into 20 E and E. Further treatment of the polar m etabolites with helicase leads again to E and 2 0 E. OEFC transform [3H]E preferably into apolar and polar conjugates, with dominance of the apolar ones at the beginning and o f polar ones in the further course o f incubation. Only a small quantity o f free 2 0 E is found during this experim ent, but it can be produced in significant quantities by splitting the polar conjugates. N o conversion o f [3H]cholesterol into [3H]ecdysteroids could be detected. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 49c, 871 (1994); received February 14/August 26 1994 | | | |
Published
| 1994 | | | |
Keywords
| Ecdysteroids, Secretion, Metabolism, Oenocyte-Fat Body Complexes, G ryllus bimaculatus | | | |
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