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Dopamine and octopamine regulate 20-hydroxyecdysone level in vivo in Drosophila.
Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology - 1 Jun 2007
Rauschenbach I Yu, Chentsova N A, Alekseev A A, Gruntenko N E, Adonyeva N V, Karpova E K, Komarova T N, Vasiliev V G, Bownes M
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The effects of increased level of dopamine (DA) (feeding flies with DA precursor, L-dihydroxyphenylalanine, L-DOPA) on the level of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and on juvenile hormone (JH) metabolism in young (2-day-old) wild type females (the strain wt) of Drosophila virilis have been studied. Feed...
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