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PHARMACOLOGICAL REGULATION OF DIGESTION IN THE ANAUTOGENOUS FLESH FLY, Sarcophaga crassipalpis , BY SIMPLE INJECTION OF 6‐HYDROXYDOPAMINE
Author(s) -
Bil Magdalena,
Huybrechts Roger
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
archives of insect biochemistry and physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.576
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1520-6327
pISSN - 0739-4462
DOI - 10.1002/arch.21314
Subject(s) - biology , flesh fly , yolk , hydroxydopamine , medicine , endocrinology , proteolytic enzymes , midgut , biochemistry , blood meal , protease , dopaminergic , enzyme , dopamine , botany , larva , food science
Female anautogenous Sarcophaga flesh flies need a protein meal to start large‐scale yolk polypeptides (YPs) production and oocyte maturation. Protein meal rapidly elicits a brain‐dependent increase in midgut proteolytic activity. Trypsin and chymotrypsin together represent over 80% of protease activity in liver‐fed flies. Abdominal injection of 6‐hydroxydopamine (6‐OHDA) dose‐dependently prohibits this increase in proteolytic activity at translational level in a similar way as post liver feeding decapitation. Delayed injection of 6‐OHDA later than 6 h post liver meal has no effect. In flesh flies, chemical decapitation by 6‐OHDA, by interrupting the brain‐gut dopaminergic signaling, can be used as tool for the controlled inhibition of midgut proteolytic activity and subsequent ovarial development. Inhibition of ovarial development is probably indirect due to a deficit in circulating amino acids needed for YPs synthesis.