Table of Contents
27 relations: Adaptogen, Antifeedant, Antioxidant, Arthropod, Bayer, Chris Q. Doe, Cordyceps, Cytotoxicity, Drosophila melanogaster, Ecdysis, Ecdysone receptor, Ecdysteroid, Herbivore, Hormone, Lipid peroxidation, Medicine, Neural stem cell, Phylum, Phytoecdysteroid, Polytene chromosome, Prohormone, Prothoracic gland, Prothoracicotropic hormone, Steroid, Tebufenozide, Toxin, 20-Hydroxyecdysone.
- Insect developmental biology
- Insect hormones
Adaptogen
Adaptogens or adaptogenic substances are used in herbal medicine for the purported stabilization of physiological processes and promotion of homeostasis.
Antifeedant
Antifeedants are organic compounds produced by plants to repel herbivores through distaste or toxicity.
Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.
Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Bayer
Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.
Chris Q. Doe
Chris Q Doe (Born 1958) is a professor of Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Institute for Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes about 600 worldwide species.
Cytotoxicity
Cytotoxicity is the quality of being toxic to cells.
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.
See Ecdysone and Drosophila melanogaster
Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
Ecdysone receptor
The ecdysone receptor is a nuclear receptor found in arthropods, where it controls development and contributes to other processes such as reproduction. Ecdysone and ecdysone receptor are insect developmental biology.
See Ecdysone and Ecdysone receptor
Ecdysteroid
Ecdysteroids are arthropod steroid hormones that are mainly responsible for molting, development and, to a lesser extent, reproduction; examples of ecdysteroids include ecdysone, ecdysterone, turkesterone and 2-deoxyecdysone. Ecdysone and ecdysteroid are insect hormones and steroids.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.
Lipid peroxidation
Lipid peroxidation, or lipid oxidation, is a complex chemical process that leads to oxidative degradation of lipids, resulting in the formation of peroxide and hydroperoxide derivatives.
See Ecdysone and Lipid peroxidation
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Neural stem cell
Neural stem cells (NSCs) are self-renewing, multipotent cells that firstly generate the radial glial progenitor cells that generate the neurons and glia of the nervous system of all animals during embryonic development.
See Ecdysone and Neural stem cell
Phylum
In biology, a phylum (phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
Phytoecdysteroid
Phytoecdysteroids are plant-derived ecdysteroids. Ecdysone and Phytoecdysteroid are steroids.
See Ecdysone and Phytoecdysteroid
Polytene chromosome
Polytene chromosomes are large chromosomes which have thousands of DNA strands.
See Ecdysone and Polytene chromosome
Prohormone
A prohormone is a committed precursor of a hormone consisting of peptide hormones synthesized together that has a minimal hormonal effect by itself because of its expression-suppressing structure, often created by protein folding and binding additional peptide chains to certain ends, that makes hormone receptor binding sites located on its peptide hormone chain segments inaccessible.
Prothoracic gland
The prothoracic glands are either of a pair of endocrine glands located in the prothorax of certain insects that regulate molting.
See Ecdysone and Prothoracic gland
Prothoracicotropic hormone
Prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) was the first insect hormone to be discovered. Ecdysone and Prothoracicotropic hormone are insect hormones.
See Ecdysone and Prothoracicotropic hormone
Steroid
A steroid is an organic compound with four fused rings (designated A, B, C, and D) arranged in a specific molecular configuration. Ecdysone and steroid are steroids.
Tebufenozide
Tebufenozide is an insecticide that acts as a molting hormone.
Toxin
A toxin is a naturally occurring poison produced by metabolic activities of living cells or organisms.
20-Hydroxyecdysone
20-Hydroxyecdysone (ecdysterone or 20E) is a naturally occurring ecdysteroid hormone which controls the ecdysis (moulting) and metamorphosis of arthropods. Ecdysone and 20-Hydroxyecdysone are insect hormones.
See Ecdysone and 20-Hydroxyecdysone
See also
Insect developmental biology
- Ametabolism
- Border cells (Drosophila)
- Caterpillar
- Drosophila embryogenesis
- Ecdysone
- Ecdysone receptor
- FlyBase
- FlyExpress
- Hemimetabolism
- Holometabolism
- Hypermetamorphosis
- Imaginal disc
- Imago
- Instar
- Juvenile hormone
- Larva
- Maggot
- Nymph (biology)
- Prepupa
- Pupa
Insect hormones
- 20-Hydroxyecdysone
- Adipokinetic hormone
- Allatostatin
- Bursicon
- Ecdysone
- Ecdysteroid
- Insect diuretic hormones
- Juvenile hormone
- Juvenile hormone acid O-methyltransferase
- Pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide
- Prothoracicotropic hormone
- Vitellogenin
References
Also known as C27H44O6, Molting hormone, Moulting hormone, Α-ecdysone.