Introduction: Pain research using animal models is related to ethical concerns, so invertebrates and insects have been recommended by researchers. In the present study, the nociceptive and antinociceptive effects of capsaicin, aspirin, morphine and chili extract were examined using fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as an alternative for rodent pain model. Methods: Stage 3 of larvae and ad...

introduction: pain research using animal models is related to ethical concerns, so invertebrates and insects have been recommended by researchers. in the present study, the nociceptive and antinociceptive effects of capsaicin, aspirin, morphine and chili extract were examined using fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster) as an alternative for rodent pain model. methods: stage 3 of larvae and adult ...

background: in this study, the toxicity of the different xenobiotics was tested on the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster model system.  methods: fly larvae were raised on food supplemented with xenobioticsat different concentrations (sodium nitroprusside (0.1-1.5 mm), s-nitrosoglutathione (0.5-4 mm), and potassium ferrocyanide (1 mm)). emergence of flies, food intake by larvae, and pupation hei...

Background: Flubendiamide, comparatively a new pesticide designed to eradicate lepidopteran insect pests is known to have low risk to birds, mammals, fish, algae, honey bees, non-target arthropods, earthworms, soil macro- and micro-organisms, non-target plants as well as sewage treatment organisms; however, the risk assessment for aquatic invertebrates from metabolite could not be finalized wit...

background microsatellites have evoked the interest of researchers owing to their applications in different fields such as dna fingerprinting, genetic mapping, population genetics, forensics, paternity studies and evolution. objectives the present study focused on the analysis of simple sequence repeats (ssrs) in genomes of seven species from three genera of the filoviridae family. materials an...

in the course of studying the saprophagous flies of kermanshah province, the larvae of drosophila busckii (coquillett) and megaselia scalaris (loew) were collected on the moribund or dead larvae of polyphylla olivieri laporte in the orchards of sahneh during 2008-2009. the adult specimens of d. busckii and m. scalaris were identified by dr. diseny (university of cambridge) and dr. baechli (univ...

En el año 2015 se realizó una colecta de especímenes del género Drosophila, en bosque nublado la reserva natural Chamanapamba, provincia Tunguruahua, Ecuador. Se encontraron tres especies nuevas: Drosophila chamanapamba sp. nov., que posiblemente es especie gemela D. guacamayos por su parecido genitalia; tungurahua muestra algunas semejanzas con ciertos miembros grupo mesophragmatica. Mientras ...

in eukaryotes, vesicle trafficking is regulated by the small monomeric gtpases of the rab protein family. rab11, (a subfamily of the ypt/rab gene family) an evolutionarily conserved, ubiquitously expressed subfamily of small monomeric rab gtpases, has been implicated in regulating vesicular trafficking through the recycling of endosomal compartment. in an earlier communication, we have shown th...