The hormonal control of diuresis in the cabbage white butterfly Pieris brassicae.
The diuresis which follows the pupal-adult ecdysis of Pieris brassicae is hormonally controlled. Use of the isolated Malpighian tubules as a bioassay shows the presence of substantial diuretic activity in homogenates of the brain and corpus cardiacum-corpus allatum complex. The hormone is probably produced in the brain and released from a storage site in the corpora cardiaca. The tubules of the butterfly are maximally responsive to the diuretic hormone at the time of eclosion.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D002080:Butterflies / Q000502:physiology*; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D003335:Corpora Allata / Q000502:physiology; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000494:pharmacology; D004231:Diuresis; D006458:Hemolymph / Q000502:physiology; D007301:Insect Hormones / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D008317:Malpighian Tubules / Q000187:drug effects; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological
D007301:Insect Hormones; D000001:Calcimycin; D000242:Cyclic AMP