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Abstract
The ultrastructure of the epithelial cells in the posterior part of the midgut in female Aedes aegypti was partly changed after starvation periods of 5 or 8 days. Most obvious is a drastic reduction of the amount of rough endoplasmic reticulum (rer), which is responsible for the synthesis of enzymes for blood digestion. A similar influence on rer membranes is to be observed in mosquitoes fed on sucrose solution only, without additional blood meals.Entities:
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Year: 1977 PMID: 837408 DOI: 10.1007/BF00221082
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Tissue Res ISSN: 0302-766X Impact factor: 5.249