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The amounts of adipokinetic and diuretic hormone in the separate storage and glandular lobes of the locust corpora cardiaca during the imaginal moult and up to the onset of sexual maturation have been measured. The levels of the hormones are high prior to the imaginal moult, fall at emergence and increase during the somatic growth period. The effects of surgical interference with the neuroendocrine system upon the hormonal content of the corpora cardiaca have been investigated. Cautery of the brain neurosecretory cells or allatectomy in mature locusts has no effect on the content of adipokinetic hormone. Diuretic hormone is absent from the storage lobes of locusts deprived of their cerebral neurosecretory cells but normal levels are present in the corpora cardiaca of allatectomised animals. Severance of the nervus corporis cardiacum I and II reduces the level of diuretic hormone in the storage lobes of the corpora cardiaca but is without effect on the levels of adipokinetic hormone in the glandular lobes.
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Goldsworthy, G.J., Mordue, W. & Johnson, R.A. The hormonal content of the locust corpus cardiacum. J. Comp. Physiol. 85, 213–220 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00694230
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