Disease relevance of Periplaneta

• The distribution of serotonin (5-HT)-containing neurons in the supraoesophageal (cerebral) ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana was studied using immunocytochemistry and the formaldehyde histofluorescence method ( Klemm , '83) [1].
• Biochemical characterization of Periplaneta fuliginosa densovirus non-structural protein NS1 [2].
• A protein having affinity to lipopolysaccharide of Escherichia coli K12 was purified to homogeneity from the hemolymph of Periplaneta americana [3].
• The order of lambda-cyhalothrin toxicity was Periplaneta americana > Periplaneta brunnea = Periplaneta australasiae = Periplaneta fuliginosa = Blatta orientalis > Blattella asahinai = Blattella germanica > Blattella vaga [4].

High impact information on Periplaneta

• Native bursicon from Periplaneta americana is also a heterodimer [5].
• Molecular characterization of American cockroach tropomyosin (Periplaneta americana allergen 7), a cross-reactive allergen [6].
• Polymerase chain reaction and Southern analysis identified a 523-base pair DNA encoding Bla g 4 in both B. germanica and Periplaneta americana (American cockroach) [7].
• Molecular cloning of cDNA for lipopolysaccharide-binding protein from the hemolymph of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana. Similarity of the protein with animal lectins and its acute phase expression [8].
• A neuroendocrine releasing effect of melatonin in the brain of an insect, Periplaneta americana (L.) [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Periplaneta

• Distribution of glutamate decarboxylase-like immunoreactivity in the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana [10].
• The synaptic action of 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) was studied in the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana L [11].
• 1. Methods for presenting dose-response data for the ganglionic actions of cholinergic agonists (e.g. carbamylcholine) are compared, using the mannitol-gap technique for electrophysiological recording of synaptic events at the cercal nerve, giant fibre synapse of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana [12].
• Small diameter (<20 microm) neurons from the sixth abdominal ganglion of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, were enzymatically isolated and responses to exogenously applied gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) were recorded using the whole-cell patch clamp technique [13].
• The octapeptide neurohormone D (NHD), a member of the family of adipokinetic hormones (AKH-peptides), increases the frequency of spontaneous activity in dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurones isolated from the terminal ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana [14].

Biological context of Periplaneta

• Long-term perifusions as well as short-term batch incubations of brains and molting glands of the cockroach Periplaneta americana were used to test the influence of melatonin on the prothoracicotropic hormone, a glandotropic neuropeptide in the brain, which stimulates the production of the molting hormone ecdysone in the molting gland [9].
• The topography and neuroanatomy of fibers connecting the deutocerebrum to the protocerebrum in the brain of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana were investigated by staining single or multiple deutocerebral neurons with cobalt, Lucifer Yellow, or biocytin [15].
• Amino acid sequences 400TVLRDPVFYQ409, 466NNVDQI471, 580VDKGHNYCGYPENLLI595, and 595IPKGKKGGQAY605 of the major recombinant American cockroach Per a 3.01 allergen were involved in IgE binding [16].
• 1. Study was made of the action of 4-aminopyridine (5 X 10(-5) M) on synaptic transmission in the last abdominal ganglion of Periplaneta americana [17].
• Structure-activity relationships for Periplaneta americana hypertrehalosemic hormone. I: The importance of side chains and termini [18].

Anatomical context of Periplaneta

• Serotonin immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous system of an insect (Periplaneta americana) [19].
• Neurosecretory neurons and their projections to the serotonin neurohemal system of the cockroach Periplaneta americana (L.), and identification of mandibular and maxillary motor neurons associated with this system [20].
• The triacylglycerol-hydrolyzing capacity of tissue homogenates has been investigate for midgut, fat body, thoracic musculature and haemolymph of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana [21].
• Tyrosine hydroxylase in the cerebral ganglia of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana L.): an immunohistochemical study [22].
• Both the central and peripheral nervous system of the cockroach Periplaneta americana contain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) [23].

Associations of Periplaneta with chemical compounds

• Novel allergen structures with tandem amino acid repeats derived from German and American cockroach [24].
• The effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on the uptake of 36Cl- into a membrane microsac preparation from isolated nerve cords of the cockroach Periplaneta americana was studied [25].
• N-Acetylation is proposed to be the major metabolic pathway for octopamine in the cockroach (Periplaneta americana) nervous system [26].
• Selective depletion of dopamine, octopamine, and 5-hydroxytryptamine in the nervous tissue of the cockroach (Periplaneta americana) [27].
• A member of the adipokinetic hormone family of peptide was identified in the damselflies Pseudagrion inconspicuum and Ischnura senegalensis using a heterologous (in migratory locusts and American cockroaches) and a homologous (in P. inconspicuum) bioassay [28].

Gene context of Periplaneta

• Octopamine receptors from American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Pa oa1), and fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster (OAMB), were cloned and permanently expressed in HEK-293 cells, and found to activate adenylate cyclase activity and increase [Ca2+]i levels through G-protein coupled receptor signaling pathways [29].
• Molecular and pharmacological analysis of an octopamine receptor from American cockroach and fruit fly in response to plant essential oils [29].
• Cloning and characterization of the adipokinetic hormone receptor from the cockroach Periplaneta americana [30].
• By using degenerate primers based on known mammalian somatostatin receptors and the recently identified Drosophila allatostatin receptors (AlstR), we have cloned a novel receptor for the neuropeptide, allatostatin, from the cockroach Periplaneta americana [31].
• Isolation and structure of two gastrin/CCK-like neuropeptides from the American cockroach homologous to the leucosulfakinins [32].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Periplaneta

• The whole cell patch-clamp technique was employed to investigate the oxaliplatin effects on the electrophysiological properties of short-term cultured dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons isolated from the CNS of the cockroach Periplaneta americana [33].
• Identification of the antigenic determinants of the American cockroach allergen Per a 1 by error-prone PCR [34].
• The effects of axotomy on the sensitivity of the fast coxal depressor motoneurone (Df) of the cockroach (Periplaneta americana) to applied acetylcholine (ACh) and carbamylcholine (CCh) have been investigated [35].
• Material antigenically resembling somatomedin C (type I insulin-like growth factor, IGF-I) is demonstrated in the American cockroach Periplaneta americana by means of a monoclonal antibody immunoperoxidase technique [36].
• Sequence analysis of the first complete cDNA clone encoding an American cockroach Per a 1 allergen [37].

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