Environmental Stress and Cellular Response in Arthropods

摘要: Contents Introduction What is Stress? Environmental Stressors Stress Effects Disturbing Cellular Homeostasis Defense Systems and Their Response to Scope Purpose of this Book Basal signal transduction systems involved in stress response Two Major Second Messenger Systems: cAMP Ca 2+ The MAPK Cascade stress-protein system Types, Structures, Functions Proteins Gene Expression, Posttranscriptional, Translational Regulation oxidative Reactive Oxygen Species Metallothionein System Properties Types Heavy Metal mixed-function oxygenase Description the Mixed-Function Oxygenase Insects Degradation Xenobiotics role cellular developing tolerance environmental Thermotolerance Insect on Aging Cell Death by integrated defense Specific Characteristics Individual Important Cooperation Integration Central Hypothesis Summary Abbreviations References