Hormones and growth: The control of body size and developmental growth rate in fruit flies
...s previously found that the release of the hormone ecdysone from an endocrine organ called the prothoracic gla...us, researchers have speculated that the timing of ecdysone release is critical in determining both the final body size and developmental rate of an insect. In...Versatile Vectors for Ponasterone A- Inducible Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells
...system is naturally repressed in the absence ofthe ecdysone analog ponasterone A (ponA). In a double-stable ce... from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. 3 The ecdysone analogs ponA and muristerone A (murA) efficiently penetrate alltissues, including the brain, due to ...pFB-ERV: Retroviral Delivery of the Ecdysone Receptor Proteins
...ion-defectiveretroviral vector for delivery of the ecdysone receptor proteins RXR and VgEcR.In stable cell lin...tional activation in mammalian cells harboring the ecdysone receptorprotein from Drosophila melanogaster. 2,3 Theecdysone-inducible system has a number of adva...