Ebook: Insect Neuropeptides. Chemistry, Biology, and Action

Content: Neuropeptide research in historical perspective / Berta Scharrer --
Biologically active insect peptides : prospects for applied and fundamental knowledge / Edward P. Masler, Thomas J. Kelly, and Julius J. Menn --
Bombyx prothoracicotropic hormone / Hiroshi Kataoka, Hiromichi Nagasawa, Atsushi Kawakami, Tadanori Oka, Akira Mizoguchi, Masafumi Iwami, Hironori Ishizaki, and Akinori Suzuki --
Gypsy moth prothoracicotropic hormone : progress toward identification / Thomas J. Kelly, Edward P. Masler, Robert A. Bell, Belgaum S. Thyagaraja, Robin E. Davis, Howard W. Fescemyer, and Alexej B. Borkovec --
Insect myotropic peptides : isolation, structural characterization, and biological activities / G. Mark Holman, Ronald J. Nachman, Mark S. Wright, Liliane Schoofs, Timothy K. Hayes, and Arnold DeLoof --
Myotropic neuropeptides : physiological and pharmacological actions / Benjamin J. Cook and Renée M. Wagner --
Metabolic neuropeptides / Larry L. Keeley, Timothy K. Hayes, James Y. Bradfield, and Ying-Hue Lee --
Chemical identification of insect diuretic peptides / David A. Schooley --
Eclosion hormone : from genes to behavior / James W. Truman, Frank M. Horodyski, Randall S. Hewes, and Lynn M. Riddiford --
Pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide : regulation of pheromone production in moths / Ashok K. Raina, Thomas G. Kempe, and Howard Jaffe --
Insect neuropeptides : influence on color change in insects and chromatophoral pigment movements in crustaceans / K. Ranga Rao, Carl J. Mohrherr, Sherman L. Bonomelli, John P. Riehm, and Timothy G. Kingan --
Egg development neurosecretory hormone activity in the mosquito Aedes aegypti / Edward P. Masler, Thomas J. Kelly, Jan P. Kochansky, Charles W. Woods, and Alexej B. Borkovec --
Mosquito oostatic hormone : a trypsin-modulating oostatic factor / Dov Borovsky, David A. Carlson, and Donald F. Hunt --
Housefly oostatic hormone : methods for isolation and characterization / Albert B. DeMilo, Thomas J. Kelly, Edward P. Masler, and Robert A. Bell --
Allatal stimulation and inhibition in locusts / Shalom W. Applebaum, Michal Gadot, Jacquelyn Hirsch, and Fathi Abd El-Hadi --
Allatostatins : neuropeptide inhibitors of juvenile hormone synthesis in brain and corpora allata of the cockroach Diploptera punctata / Barbara Stay, Andrea P. Woodhead, Sanjay Joshi, and Stephen S. Tobe --
Two types of allatostatic peptides from brains of the cockroach Diploptera punctata / Grahame E. Pratt, Dan E. Farnsworth, Ned R. Siegel, Kam F. Fok, and René Feyereisen --
Myotropic insect neuropeptide families from the cockroach Leucophaea maderae : structure-activity relationships / Ronald J. Nachman and G. Mark Holman --
Pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide hormone of Heliothis zea : isolation and characterization / Howard Jaffe, Ashok K. Raina, Renée M. Wagner, H.M. Fales, Thomas G. Kempe, P. Keim, R.W. Blacher, and C.T. Riley --
Adipokinetic hormone neuropeptide family : applying recombinant DNA techniques / Martin H. Schaffer and Barbara E. Noyes --
Molecular genetics of the Drosophila FMRFamide neuropeptide gene / Paul H. Taghert, Lynne E. Schneider, and Martha A. O'Brien --
Baculovirus-directed foreign gene expression / Max D. Summers.