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  • Springer  (8)
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  • 1990-1994  (8)
  • 1985-1989
  • 1992  (8)
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    Biphasic dose-response curves of cortisol effects on rat diaphyseal bone biomechanics (1992)
    Springer
    Calcified tissue international 50 (1992), S. 49-54 
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    ISSN: 1432-0827
    Keywords: Cortisol ; Cortical bone ; Bone biomechanics ; Rat ; Femur
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Physics
    Notes: Summary Doses of 8, 16 (low), 32, 48, 64 (medium), and 150 (high) mg/kg/day of cortisol were administered to groups of 8 growing rats each during 16 days, and their femurs were then submitted to 3-point bending tests at low strain rate. Low doses had no effect. Medium doses, previously shown to improve calcium (Ca) balance and weight gain in the species, augmented diaphyseal elastic and ultimate strength, stiffness, and plastic-to-elastic deformation ratio with respect to untreated controls. This effect was achieved either by enhancing bone mass (volume, sectional moment of inertia, wall/lumen ratio) without changes in material quality parameters (32 mg/kg/day) or, conversely, by increasing bone tissue mechanical properties (stress, modulus of elasticity) not affecting bone geometry (48 and 64 mg/kg/day). The highest dose, known to depress Ca balance and weight gain, impaired diaphyseal mechanical performance in controls by substantially reducing bone mass without major variation in bone material properties, that is, developing a true osteopenic state in mechanical terms. The energy elastically absorbed per unit volume (proportional to the risk of comminute fractures) was greater with the highest dose because of enhanced deformability and diminished bone mass. The biphasic dose-response curves obtained, grossly parallel to those previously demonstrated for metabolic actions of cortisol in the same species, showed that biomechanical repercussion of this treatment on bone depends on different, dose-dependent effects which vary independently in temporal course, intensity, and sign.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00297297
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  • 2
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    MaleHeliothis virescens maintain upwind flight in response to experimentally pulsed filaments of their sex pheromone (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of insect behavior 5 (1992), S. 669-687 
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    ISSN: 1572-8889
    Keywords: Heliothis virescens ; Noctuidae ; Lepidoptera ; upwind flight ; sex pheromone ; filaments
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Aspects of the intermittent fine structure of an odor plume were mimicked and experimentally modified in the wind tunnel using an air-pulsing device. Filaments of a behaviorally active blend of six sex-pheromone components created by the device in a temporally regular fashion elicited sustained upwind flight and source location in male Heliothis virescens.Males did not exhibit sustained upwind flight in significant numbers until a frequency of 4 filaments/s was delivered, at a loading of 1 μg of the major component, Z11-16: Ald, with the other components loaded at their appropriate ratios. A loading of 10 μg Z11-16: Ald was found to be optimal at this filament delivery rate. Electroantennogram recordings to different filament delivery rates of the complete blend indicated that a stationary male antenna can respond to the pulse rates used in this study. Importantly, when a main component necessary for upwind flight, Z9-14:Ald, was isolated into its own filaments and pulsed alternately against filaments of the five other components (including the other component essential for upwind flight, Z11-16: Ald), upwind flight to the source was significantly reduced (9%) compared to upwind flight and source location in response to filaments composed of the entire blend (30%), indicating that the complete pheromone blend must arrive on the antenna simultaneously for optimal evocation of sustained upwind progress. Neurophysiological evidence from other studies suggests that higher-order interneurons whose phasic response is enhanced when the entire blend is presented simultaneously may be of importance in explaining this behavioral difference stemming from synchronous vsasynchronous arrival of the components.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01047979
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  • 3
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    Effects of lesion of the inferior olivary complex by 3-acetylpyridine on learning and memory in the rat (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of comparative physiology 171 (1992), S. 657-664 
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    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Keywords: Inferior olivary complex ; Cerebellum ; 3-acetylpyridine ; Harmaline ; Learning ; Memory ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary DA/HAN-strained male rats (pigmented rats) were submitted to two experimental tasks consisting of spatial learning (water-escape) and a passive avoidance conditioning. Both these tasks were performed by different animals. In order to destroy the inferior olivary complex, the animals were injected with 3-acetylpyridine either 9 days prior to the initial learning session or 24 h after completion of the learning task. They were retested (retrieval test) 10 days after the initial learning was achieved. Learning and retention were compared to those noted in control rats. Administration of 3-acetylpyridine before the initial learning did not prevent the spatial learning but the scores were greatly altered and the number of trials needed to reach the fixed learning criterion was much greater than in controls. However, 10 days later the animals had memorized their initial experience. Injection of 3-acetylpyridine after the initial learning session impaired memory: the animals had completely forgotten their initial learning. It can therefore be concluded that lesion of the afferent climbing fibres to the cerebellar cortex alters learning and retention of a spatial task. Such a lesion does not interfere with learning and retention of a passive avoidance conditioning, since in this condition the experimental animals injected with 3-acetylpyridine either before or after the initial learning behave similarly to controls. The effects of the inferior olivary complex lesion are obviously different according to the task to be learnt, suggesting that these two tasks do not require the integrity of the same nervous structures.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00194113
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  • 4
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    6,10,14-Trimethylpentadecan-2-one: A Bermuda grass phagostimulant to fall armyworm (lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 18 (1992), S. 673-682 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Allelochemistry ; Bermuda grass ; Cynodon dactylon ; phagostimulant ; Spodoptera frugiperda ; Lepidoptera ; Noctuidae ; fall armyworm ; 6,10, 14-trimethylpentadecan-2-one
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract A phagostimulant, 6,10,14-trimethylpentadecan-1-one (phytone), was isolated and identified from Bermuda grass,Cynodon dactylon (L.). The phagostimulant activity of this isoprenoid ketone was established from bioassays of fall armyworm larvae,Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith). Larvae displayed increased body mass accumulation as well as preference to diet supplemented with this molecule. Neonate larvae fed diet supplemented with chromatographic isolates of phytone-containing fractions from six Bermuda grass cultivars showed a 10–40% increase in body mass accumulation as compared with controls. This variation in larval body mass accumulation seems attributable to a differential concentration of phytone in the cultivars, which ranged from 0.5 to 43 ppm. Additionally, first-instar larvae responded preferentially to diet pellets topically treated with phytone in concentrations as low as 0.1 ppm.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00987827
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    Identification of male cabbage looper sex pheromone attractive to females (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 18 (1992), S. 441-453 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Male-produced pheromone ; cabbage looper ; Trichoplusia ni ; Lepidoptera ; Noctuidae ; female attractant ; linalool ; p-cresol ; m-cresol ; enantiomers
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract A multicomponent pheromone produced by male cabbage looper moths that is attractive to female moths in a flight tunnel bioassay was isolated and identified. Based on analyses of hairpencil extracts of male cabbage loopers and volatiles emitted by males, the pheromone has been identified as a blend consisting of (S)-(+)-linalool,p-cresol, andm-cresol. The chirality of the major component, (S)-(+)-linalool, is important for behavioral response of females. These pheromonal compounds were also identified as volatiles released by males when males were exposed to the principal pheromone component of female cabbage loopers, (Z)-7-dodecen-1-ol acetate. The amount of male pheromone released was increased significantly when males were exposed to a combination of (Z)-7-dodecen-1-ol acetate and the odor from cabbage. Neither linalool nor the cresols were detected in volatiles from cabbage or from males exposed to cabbage odor.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00994243
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    Detrimental effects ofCinchona leaf alkaloids on larvae of the polyphagous insectSpodoptera exigua (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 18 (1992), S. 1955-1964 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Chemical defense ; Cinchona ; indole alkaloids ; leaf alkaloids ; Lepidoptera ; Noctuidae ; quinoline alkaloids ; root alkaloids ; Spodoptera exigua
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract YoungCinchona ledgeriana plants contain two types of alkaloid: indole alkaloids in the leaves and quinoline alkaloids in the root. FromCinchona leaves, a crude alkaloid extract was made, containing the cinchophylline type of indole alkaloids and a small amount of 5-methoxytryptamine. The leaf alkaloid extract exerted a strong detrimental effect on the growth of larvae of the polyphagous beet armyworm,Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera). Feeding of larvae on an artificial diet containing the leaf alkaloids at the same concentrations as those found in the plant resulted in significant growth reduction, retardation in development, and mortality of the larvae. Cinchophyllines are composed of 5-methoxytryptamine coupled to a corynantheal unit. When incorporated into the artificial diet, 5-methoxytryptamine alone had no effect on the 5.exigua larvae. Corynantheal, however, had a strong detrimental effect on growth of the larvae, its effect being comparable to that of the leaf alkaloid extract. In contrast to the indole-type leaf alkaloids, the quinolinetypeCinchona root alkaloids did not affect growth and development of the larvae. These results suggest that the indole-type alkaloids, which inCinchona plants are present at the highest concentrations in the young, vulnerable leaflets, are involved in the chemical defense of the plant against herbivorous insects.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00981919
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    Avoidance of antinutritive plant defense: Role of midgut pH in Colorado potato beetle (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 18 (1992), S. 571-583 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Leptinotarsa decemlineata ; Coleoptera ; Chrysomelidae ; Colorado potato beetle ; Helicoverpa zea ; Lepidoptera ; Noctuidae ; phenolics ; poly-phenol oxidase ; peroxidase ; chlorogenic acid ; Lycopersicon esculentum ; tomato ; host-plant resistance ; midgut pH
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract The fate of the tomato foliar phenolic, chlorogenic acid, in the digestive systems of Colorado potato beetleLeptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) andHelicoverpa tea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is compared. In larvalH. zea and other lepidopteran species previously examined, approximately 35–50% of the ingested chlorogenic acid was oxidized in the digestive system by foliar phenolic oxidases (i.e., polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase) from the tomato plant. The oxidized form of chlorogenic acid, chlorogenoquinone, is a potent alkylator of dietary protein and can exert a strong antinutritive effect upon larvae through chemical degradation of essential amino acids. In contrast, inL. decemlineata less than 4% of the ingested dose of chlorogenic acid was bound to protein. In vitro experiments to determine the influence of pH on covalent binding of chlorogenic acid to protein showed that 30–45% less chlorogenic acid bound to protein at pHs representative of the beetle midgut (pH 5.5–6.5) than at a pH representing the lepidopteran midgut (pH 8.5). At an acidic pH, considerably more of the alkylatable functional groups of amino acids (−NH2, −SH) are in the nonreactive, protonated state. Hence, polyphenol oxidases are unlikely to have significant antinutritive effects against the Colorado potato beetle and may not be a useful biochemical source of resistance against this insect. The influence of feeding by larval Colorado potato beetle on foliar polyphenol oxidase activity in tomato foliage and its possible significance to interspecific competition is also considered.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00987820
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    Laboratory colonization has not reduced constitutive or induced polysubstrate monooxygenase activity in velvetbean caterpillars (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of chemical ecology 18 (1992), S. 1313-1325 
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    ISSN: 1573-1561
    Keywords: Allelochemical ; Anticarsia gemmatalis ; detoxification ; field strain ; flavone ; Indigofera hirsuta ; induction ; laboratory colony ; Noctuidae ; Lepidoptera ; polysubstrate monooxygenase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Abstract We evaluated whether velvetbean caterpillars (Anticarsia gemmatalis) from a laboratory colony had reduced constitutive (basal) and/or induced activities of their polysubstrate monooxygenase (PSMO) detoxification enzyme system as a result of long-term rearing (〉 100 generations) on artificial diet without introduction of field-collected individuals. Larvae from the laboratory colony and those from a recently collected field strain were fed either a standard artificial diet (control), one containing the inducing allelochemical, flavone, or foliage ofIndigofera hirsuta (a host plant of this species), and their midgut PSMO activity was assessed by measuring the in vitro rate of aldrin epoxidation. Compared with the field-strain larvae, caterpillars from the laboratory colony had 1.9-fold greater constitutive activity (standard artificial diet) and 2.3-fold greater induced activity (flavone-treated diet). In addition, the magnitude of induction was somewhat greater for the laboratory-colony larvae (induced activity was 2.0-fold greater than constitutive activity) compared with those from the field-strain (1.6-fold). In contrast, no difference in strain activity was found when larvae were fedI. hirsuta foliage. The lower PSMO activity of the field-strain larvae when fed artificial diet may have been caused by their reduced feeding and growth performance compared with laboratory-colony larvae, and it may explain their greater sensitivity to allelochemicals incorporated in the artificial diet, as we found previously. The results of this study indicate that long-term rearing of theA. gemmatalis laboratory colony on artificial diet, without the introduction of field individuals, apparently has not selected for low constitutive activity or decreased inducibility of PSMO, and thus these larvae provide a suitable model for studying xenobiotic detoxication. In addition, they suggest that using an artificial diet to evaluate resistance to pesticides or other xenobiotics in fieldcollected insects, as is frequently done, may underestimate the level of resistance if the diet, through various causes, reduces the activity of detoxification enzymes contributing to the resistance.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00994358
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