title: Excretion of uric acid and amino acids during diuresis in the adult female Glossina morsitans.
abstract: Radiometric analysis was carried out on the urine collected for one hour following feeding of the adult female Glossina morsitans on day 1 of a pregnancy cycle, which had previously received haemocoelic injections of U-14C labelled arginine, histidine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, tyrosine or valine. Mean radioactivity in the urine was quite high after labelled arginine (17.4% of injected activity) and histidine (21.8%) administration, most of the activity being in the amino acid fractions. With the remaining six labelled amino acids, mean radioactivity in the urine varied between 1.6 and 7.2% of injected activity, most of this activity occurred in a non-amino acid fraction (probably uric acid), though low radioactivity was also detected in a range of essential as well as non-essential amino acids.
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000652:urine; D000818:Animals; D004231:Diuresis; D005260:Female; D012098:Reproduction; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000502:physiology*; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D014527:Uric Acid