Disease relevance of Houseflies

• Toxicity studies with nitrofurazone were also carried out on larval development of the house fly Musca domestica L [1].
• Polymerase chain reaction was conducted on DNA extractions of individual Musca domestica Linnaeus, Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus), Hydrotaea aenescens (Wiedemann), Adia cinerella Fallen and turkey faecal samples using primers specific for E. coli H7, O157 and Campylobacter spp [2].

Psychiatry related information on Houseflies

• Effect of physical activity on superoxide dismutase, catalase, inorganic peroxides and glutathione in the adult male housefly, Musca domestica [3].

High impact information on Houseflies

• Primary structure of a potent endogenous dopa-containing inhibitor of phenol oxidase from Musca domestica [4].
• An unusual mechanism for hydrocarbon biosynthesis is proposed from work examining the formation of (Z)-9-tricosene (Z9-23:Hy), the major sex pheromone component of the female housefly, Musca domestica [5].
• Like Ac and Tam3, the hobo element was found to function in a distantly related species, in this case the housefly Musca domestica [6].
• Isolation and sequence of cDNA encoding a cytochrome P-450 from an insecticide-resistant strain of the house fly, Musca domestica [7].
• Similar results have been obtained for the Sxl homologue of Musca domestica (Meise, M., Hilfiker-Kleiner, D., Brunner, C., DŁbendorfer, A., N¿thiger, R. and Bopp, D. (1998) Development 125, 1487-1494) [8].

Chemical compound and disease context of Houseflies

• This study examined the joint toxicity of atrazine and three organophosphate (OP) insecticides (chlorpyrifos, methyl parathion, and diazinon) exposed to Hyalella azteca and Musca domestica [9].
• We determined the toxicity of the two IGRs, diflubenzuron and cyromazine, in this survey of resistance in Danish field populations of Musca domestica (L.). We observed resistance toward diflubenzuron and for the first time in Denmark and we found field populations with some resistance to cyromazine [10].
• Dermal and oral toxicities of azamethiphos were determined in two organophosphate-resistant and one susceptible strain of houseflies, Musca domestica L [11].
• Comparative toxicity of rhodamine B and rhodamine 6G to the house fly (Musca domestica l.) [12].

Biological context of Houseflies

• S-adenosylmethionine: homocysteine methyltransferase during embryogenesis in Musca domestica [13].
• Extensive sequence analysis of the developmental gene hunchback and its 5' and 3' regulatory regions in Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila virilis, Musca domestica, and Tribolium castaneum, using a variety of computer algorithms, reveals regions of high sequence simplicity probably generated by slippage-like mechanisms of turnover [14].
• Effect of catalase inactivation on levels of inorganic peroxides, superoxide dismutase, glutathione, oxygen consumption and life span in adult houseflies (Musca domestica) [15].
• Identification and characterization of mutations in housefly (Musca domestica) acetylcholinesterase involved in insecticide resistance [16].
• The result of phenocopying hb mutations using RNA interference (RNAi) in Musca domestica shows broadly similar functions to the hb gene in Drosophila melanogaster [17].

Anatomical context of Houseflies

• NADPH-cytochrome c (P-450) reductase (EC 1.6.2.4) was purified to apparent homogeneity from microsomes of house flies, Musca domestica L [18].
• Saporin-S6, a ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) from Saponaria officinalis released more than 1 mol of adenine/mol of ribosomes from house fly (Musca domestica) larvae and from rat liver [19].
• The Malpighian tubules of adult Calliphora erythrocephala and Musca domestica remove nicotine from bathing solutions, an unknown metabolic accumulating in the tubules [20].
• Histamine-like immunoreactivity in photoreceptors of the compound eyes and ocelli of the flies Calliphora erythrocephala and Musca domestica [21].
• We investigated the ultrastructure of PDH-ir varicosities, possible releasing sites of the PDH-like peptide, in the distal medulla of the optic lobe and in the dorsal protocerebrum of the two fly species Drosophila melanogaster and Musca domestica [22].

Associations of Houseflies with chemical compounds

• A cDNA expression library from phenobarbital-treated house fly (Musca domestica) was screened with rabbit antisera directed against partially purified house fly cytochrome P-450 [7].
• Two classes of glutathione transferases have been identified and purified from Musca domestica [23].
• Analysis of the 1,4-dihydropyridine binding region of an ancestral L-type alpha1 subunit previously cloned from Musca domestica body wall muscle led to the identification of Met1188 (alpha1C-a numbering) as an additional critical constituent of the L-type 1,4-dihydropyridine binding domain [24].
• Occupational allergy to the common house fly. (Musca domestica): use of immunologic response to identify atmospheric allergen [25].
• Effects of aging and hyperoxia on oxidative damage to cytochrome c in the housefly, Musca domestica [26].

Gene context of Houseflies

• Comparison of the argos genes from Drosophila melanogaster and the housefly, Musca domestica, supports our structure-function analysis [27].
• We studied the uptake of yolk proteins from 13 different Drosophila species and five other dipteran species, namely, Calliphora erythrocephala, Sarcophaga argyrostoma, Musca domestica, Lucilia servicata, and Protophormia terrae-novae, into the ovaries of Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila funebris [28].
• This work compares the hunchback-bicoid interaction in the housefly Musca domestica with Drosophila melanogaster [29].
• 8. The M. sexta GST1 was 45.9-48.6% identical to GSTs from Musca domestica and several Drosophila species [30].
• This study presents evidence that the housefly, Musca domestica, also has a protein similar to Drosophila PRI [31].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Houseflies

• Insect calcium channels. Molecular cloning of an alpha 1-subunit from housefly (Musca domestica) muscle [32].
• Six forms of cytochrome P-450 in the mitochondria of larvae from Musca domestica were isolated by solubilization with CHAPS followed by ammonium sulfate fractionation and HPLC on an anion-exchange column [33].
• Recombinant house fly (Musca domestica) cytochrome P450 reductase has been purified by anion exchange and affinity chromatography [34].
• A segment of the house fly (Musca domestica) homologue of the para (paralytic) sodium channel gene of Drosophila melanogaster was isolated by using mixed sequence oligonucleotide primers in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [35].
• Degenerate primers corresponding to conserved amino acid sequences in three insect P450s, Musca domestica (CYP6A1), Drosophila melanogaster (CYP6A2) and Papilio polyxenes (CYP6B1), were used to clone xanthotoxin-induced P450 transcripts from P. glaucus larvae by a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) strategy [36].

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