Ishizaki Hironori, Suzuki Atsushi, Moriya Ikuo, Mizoguchi Akira, Fujishita Mariko, O'Oka Hisayoshi, Kataoka Hiroshi, Isogai Akira, Nagasawa Hiromichi, Suzuki Akinori
Biological Institute, Faculty fo Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464, Japan.
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
Dev Growth Differ. 1983;25(6):585-592. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.1983.00585.x.
Blockage of adult development by brain removal and its resumption by application of the prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) were studied using pupae of a racial hybrid J-122 × C-115 of Bombyx mori. A log-linear dose-response relationship was obrained after injection of a PTTH solution. The Bombyx-unit of PTTH has been defined from this dose-response curve.
利用家蚕品种间杂交种J-122×C-115的蛹,研究了摘除脑对成虫发育的阻断作用以及注射促前胸腺激素(PTTH)对成虫发育的恢复作用。注射PTTH溶液后获得了对数线性剂量反应关系。已根据该剂量反应曲线定义了PTTH的家蚕单位。