PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - MADDRELL, S. H. P.
TI  - Excretion in the Blood-Sucking Bug, <em>Rhodnius Prolixus</em> Stål
DP  - 1963 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Experimental Biology
PG  - 247--256
VI  - 40
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jeb.biologists.org/content/40/2/247.short
4100  - http://jeb.biologists.org/content/40/2/247.full
SO  - J. Exp. Biol.1963 Jun 01; 40
AB  - 1. The mechanism underlying diuresis in Rhodnius has been investigated. 2. An isolated preparation of the Malpighian tubules of a 5th-instar larva is described. 3. The rate of secretion by such a preparation, isolated in a drop of haemolymph, is at first high but soon falls to a low level. It can be restored by the addition of haemolymph taken from an insect during diuresis. 4. It has been shown that diuresis is promoted by some substance, presumably a neurohormone, which can be extracted from the posterior neurosecretory cells of the fused ganglionic mass situated in the mesothorax.