文摘
Hemolymph of Panstrongylus megistus, Dipetalogaster maximus and Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera:Reduviidae), in the presence of adipokinetic hormone and fat bodies, has the molecular components for generating low density lipophorin (1.060-1.070 m ml−1) from high density lipophorin (1.130-1.140 g ml−1), similar to that observed in long-distance flight insects. Low density lipophorin showed a significant increase of acylglycerols and a higher amount of apolipophorin-III (mol.wt 18 kDa) with respect to the original fraction of the incubation media. This process was dependent upon the nutritional status of the insects, whose fat bodies with > 20 days of starvation had the highest levels of acylglycerols. Antiserum against high density lipophorin produced a single precipitation line when it reached by using Ouchterlony's test with high and low density lipophorins from the three species, and no reaction was observed with other lipophorins.