ADIPOSE TISSUE OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER .I. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LARVAL FAT BODY
ADIPOSE TISSUE OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER .I. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LARVAL FAT BODY
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DOI:
10.1002/jez.1401580203
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
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KING, RC
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BUTTERWORTH, FM;BODENSTEIN, D;KING, RC
Morphological, cytochemical and developmental studies were undertaken of the adipose cells present in 3rd instar larvae and in adult females of Drosophila melanogaster. The adipose cells of the adult type in the abdomens of recently emerged and 7-day-old adult females contain deposits of lipid and glycogen. Although the cells increase in size during this period, their nuclei do not. During the 3rd instar the larval adipose cells and their nuclei undergo a 5- and 2-fold increase in average cross-sectional area, respectively. Deposits of lipid and glycogen are present throughout this period. Proteinaceous globules first appear in the middle of the 3rd instar. They increase in diameter and number until just before pupation they comprise 1/4 of the cytoplasm of the cells. In the young adult the surviving larval adipose cells and their nuclei have decreased in average cross-sectional area by 2 and 3 times, respectively, from the late 3rd instar values. The surviving larval adipose cells contain droplets of unsaturated lipids, protein globules, and deposits of glycogen which completely fill the remaining cytoplasmic area. By the 3rd day of adult life these cells histolyze. When late 2nd instar larvae are starved for 3 days, the average cross-sectional area of their fat body cells decreases 10 times. Despite the absence of glycogen and a huge decrease in lipid, protein globules form, and by the 3rd day of starvation comprise 1/4 of the cytoplasm. Transplantation experiments demonstrate that a hormone produced by the ring gland during the late 3rd instar induces the formation of these protein globules.