The hormonal control of diuresis in the cabbage white butterfly Pieris brassicae.
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The diuresis which follows the pupal-adult ecdysis of Pieris brassicae is hormonally controlled. Use of the isolated Malpighian tubules as a bioassay shows the presence of substantial diuretic activity in homogenates of the brain and corpus cardiacum-corpus allatum complex. The hormone is probably produced in the brain and released from a storage site in the corpora cardiaca. The tubules of the butterfly are maximally responsive to the diuretic hormone at the time of eclosion.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of experimental biology
دوره 65 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976