(1) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
(2) The anti-rickettsial activity of this drug was evaluated with regard to the determination of the numbers of surviving microorganism (LID100) and the in vivo concentration of erythromycin in both arthropod hosts.
(3) The method of detection of rickettsia in smears from the arthropods using the immunofluorescence technique and antibody response in mice inoculated with infected arthropods was found to be the most effective in these studies.
(4) The intensity of light for reliable cell killing (0.5 MW.m-2) was much greater than that used to kill arthropod neurones.
(5) The microsporidia are a group of unusual, obligately parasitic protists that infect a great variety of other eukaryotes, including vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, annelids, nematodes, cnidaria and even various ciliates, myxosporidia and gregarines.
(6) These results suggest that the specificity of LAC virus-vector interactions is markedly influenced by the efficiency of the fusion function of the G1 envelope glycoprotein operating at the midgut level in the arthropod vector.
(7) Domestic swine were housed in four pens under controlled conditions to document arthropod transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus.
(8) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(9) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(10) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
(11) The method is convenient, and could be useful for the study of arthropod neuromuscular junctions in general, since their nerve terminals do not release acetylcholine as a transmitter and cannot be stained by the more commonly used cholinesterase methods.
(12) The arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) diseases of livestock have worldwide impact.
(13) These include gap junctions with features characteristic of arthropods, which seem to assemble by lateral migration of 13-nm E face intramembranous particles (IMPs), which ultimately cluster to form a large number of mature plaques of varying diameters.
(14) Histopathological examination of skin biopsies demonstrated changes compatible with arthropod hypersensitivity.
(15) Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get Zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get Zika in our native mosquitoes.” Zika is a subtropical virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, part of a group of diseases known as arboviruses, short for arthropod-borne viruses.
(16) A phylogenetic tree constructed from these sequences shows that the family evolved from a common ancestral gene that came into existence at about the time of arthropod and chordate divergence.
(17) The paper ends with identification keys for both adult and immature stages as well as for arthropod indoor fecal traces.
(18) Presence of organophosphates in arthropod larvae has not been documented previously and the analysis of larvae from decomposing remains may prove a useful technique for detection of these toxicants in decomposing remains.
(19) In arthropods, reflex modulation can occur in the sensory receptors themselves and in neurons that discharge during locomotion.
(20) The inhibition assay for mite allergen was reproducible in the presence of protein concentrations of added plant, fungal, arthropod and animal extracts in excess of the protein concentrations that occur under the operational mite assay conditions.
Hepatopancreas
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(1) The protuberances arose after an exposure of early-exponential phase cells to digestive enzymes from hepatopancreas of Helix pomatia.
(2) Arylsulfatases, partially purified from the hepatopancreas of the red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, were investigated with respect to heterogeneity, catalytic requirements, and timing of induction during development.
(3) The sialidase purified from the hepatopancreas of Penaeus japonicus is able to bind the acidic beta-galactosidase in vitro.
(4) It has been shown that RNA synthesis in isolated hepatopancreas nuclei from Mytilus galloprovincialis is catalyzed by three DNA-dependent RNA polymerases (I, II and III) which resemble those identified in nuclei from mammalian cells.
(5) Contrastingly, the hepatopancreas of aestivated snails when treated with ganglionic extracts of active snails showed increased specific activities of both enzymes.
(6) By 2 weeks and later, hepatopancreas and digestive tract contained the highest concentration and percentage of the dose, by total radioactivity.
(7) The radial distribution function calculated from x-ray diffraction of mineralized cytoplasmic structures isolated from the hepatopancreas of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) is very similar to that previously found for synthetic amorphous calcium phosphate.
(8) The glutathione S-transferase activity in hepatopancreas of the American red crayfish Procambarus clarkii after 15 days' acclimatization in tap water aquaria was measured in specimens collected monthly for a whole year, and shows seasonal variation.
(9) Concentrations of Pb, Cd, and Al were highest in the hepatopancreas and alimentary tract.
(10) The highest levels were found in hepatopancreas from crustaceans.
(11) In the case of the invertebrates we sampled liver, neural tissue, gonads, digestive tract and hepatopancreas.
(12) Accumulations by the digestive gland (hepatopancreas) and kidneys were 2 and 1.3 times greater, respectively, than the average accumulation by the whole soft tissue.
(13) Mice were immunized against hepatopancreas homogenate of Biomphalaria alexandrina, using Al(OH)3 as adjuvant, and challenged by subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae, percutaneous invasion of cercariae and intravenous (i.v.)
(14) From this time onwards till week 12 the proportion of parasite tissue remained rather constant, indicating a kind of regulation, whereas the hepatopancreas tissue decreased to about one-third of the volume found in uninfected snails of the same shell diameter.
(15) The values of principal lipids and fatty acids from muscle and hepatopancreas of crab E. sinensis living in fresh water or in sea water are determined.
(16) Except for hepatopancreas, Cu was for the greater part bound to the high-molecular-weight fraction.
(17) Highest concentrations of BP-derived radioactivity were found in the hepatopancreas, stomach, intestine, intestinal contents, and the green gland.
(18) The cadmium-binding proteins were shown to exist in the hepatopancreas of three molluscs, a whelk, Buccinum tenuissimum, a turbo, Batillus cornutus, and a squid, Todarodes pacificus.
(19) The ultrastructure of hepatopancreas cells are markedly influenced by bromoacetamide, including swelling of mitochondria and splitting of cristae.
(20) (1984), presented experimental results which indicated that the hepatopancreas of the crayfish, Procambarus clarki, had an important role in the absorption of digested food materials.