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- W2907657953 abstract "Publisher SummaryHormones are the chemical messengers of multicellular organisms that allow the cells to communicate and engage in coordinated responses. They are especially pervasive in insect systems, affecting a wide variety of physiological processes including embryogenesis, postembryonic development, behavior, water balance, metabolism, caste determination, polymorphism, mating, reproduction, and diapause. This chapter discusses the hormone releasing sites, including endocrine glands, tissues, and cells, present in insect bodies. Insects have classical endocrine glands, which are tissues that specialize in the secretion of chemical messengers that are transported by the blood and act on receptor-bearing target tissues elsewhere in the body. Examples of endocrine glands in insects are the prothoracic glands, which produce ecdysteroids, and the corpus allatum, which produces juvenile hormones. Insects, like vertebrates, also have nerve cells that generate electrical impulses and translate these to chemical messages at the synapse and then propagate the messages to other neurons to which they are connected. Insects produce steroid hormones, such as ecdysteroids, sesquiterpenes that include all the juvenile hormones, and a number of peptide hormones produced by neurosecretory cells throughout the central nervous system and the midgut. There are also a number of biogenic amines, including octopamine, tyramine, and serotonin, that are primarily neurotransmitters derived from amino acids, but that also may have more widespread effects on the organism. Other hormones, such as prostaglandin, are derived from fatty acids. The chapter describes the synthesis, release, modes of actions, and physiological impacts of these insect hormones." @default.
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