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http://dx.doi.org/10.5656/KSAE.2012.09.0.038

Change in Hemocyte Populations of the Beet Armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, in Response to Bacterial Infection and Eicosanoid Mediation  

Park, Jiyeong (Department of Bioresource Sciences, Andong National University)
Kim, Yonggyun (Department of Bioresource Sciences, Andong National University)
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Korean journal of applied entomology / v.51, no.4, 2012 , pp. 349-356 More about this Journal
Abstract
Eicosanoid mediates various cellular immune responses in insects. This study aimed to discover its novel action on the modulation of hemocyte populations in response to an immune challenge. Upon bacterial challenge, the last instar larvae of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, increased their total hemocyte density in 2 h, and then decreased it to a basal hemocyte density level. This rapid increase in total hemocyte density was explained by an increase of plasmatocyte and spherulocyte densities. When larvae were treated with dexamethasone (a specific phospholipase $A_2$ ($PLA_2$) inhibitor), they did not show any increase in hemocyte density in response to bacterial challenge. However, the addition of arachidonic acid (a catalytic product of $PLA_2$) to larvae treated with dexamethasone recovered the up-regulation of hemocyte density in response to bacterial infection. Among eicosanoid, cyclooxygenase (COX), but not lipoxygenase (LOX), products seemed to mediate the increase of hemocyte density in response to bacterial infection because naproxene (a COX inhibitor) inhibited the hemocyte density increase, though esculetin (a LOX inhibitor) did not. Prostaglandin $E_2$, a COX product, significantly increased the hemocyte density even without bacterial infection. These results suggest that eicosaniod mediates a rapid increase in total hemocyte density in response to immune challenge.
Keywords
Eicosanoid; Prostaglandin; Hemocyte; immune; Spodoptera exigua;
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