ACTION OF INSECT HORMONES AT CELLULAR LEVEL - MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF A DIPLOID CELL LINE OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER, TREATED WITH ECDYSONE AND SEVERAL ANALOGS IN-VITRO
ACTION OF INSECT HORMONES AT CELLULAR LEVEL - MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF A DIPLOID CELL LINE OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER, TREATED WITH ECDYSONE AND SEVERAL ANALOGS IN-VITRO
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(72)90384-9
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
COURGEON, AM
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作者:
COURGEON, AM
Cells of a diploid line established from embryos ofDrosophila melanogaster, and maintained in the laboratory for more than 3 years, respond specifically to the synthetic moulting hormones α-ecdysone and β-ecdysone and to several ecdysone analogues. The cells are most sensitive to β-ecdysone and respond to doses as low as 0.006 μg/ml. β-Ecdysone was found to be 5 or 10 times more active than inokosterone and cyasterone, 500 times more active than α-ecdysone, and 5 000 times more than 22-iso-ecdysone.Hormone-treated cells display a series of morphological modifications which are identical for all the ecdysone analogues tested: 16 to 24 h after introduction of the hormone, the cells are seen to flatten or take a spindle shape. Then they tend to aggregate and become fibroblastic or very flattened, and the membrane shows an apparent expansion. The cells appear afterwards full of various inclusions. The rapidity of such an evolution is dose dependent.This morphological evolution requires the presence of foetal calf serum in the culture medium, and becomes irreversible when the cells have attained the fibroblastic stage, which coincides with an arrest of multiplication.Lines of ecdysone-resistant cells have been isolated.