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Analysis of Fatty Acids in Diacylglyceroles and Triacylglyceroles of Body Fluids by Gass Chromatography
SCHNEEDORFEROVÁ, Ivana
Epinephrine is well known a stress hormone of mammals. The adipokinetic hormone (AKH) has the same function in insects. AKH is peptidic hormone; one species of insect possesses one or more types of AKH. Basically AKH is responsible for releasing of diacylglycerols (DGs) from fat body. Our experimental animal is common model organism, locust (Locusta migratoria). Those animal synthesizes three AKH types {--} AKH I, II and III. They differ in amino acid order in peptide, but having very similar influence on the organism. Recently used a routine sulfovaniline method for unsaturated fatty acids (FA) determination estimates only quantitatively the sum of double bounds in fatty acids. Our proposed method, perspective GC FID (Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detector), is very revolutionary being able to determinate particular fatty acid species and also their relative ratio. Aim of this study is to find a proper sample preparation method for GC FID technique and to investigate the influence of particular AKH to the locust organism and to statistically prove the differences in AKH influences. A locust haemolymph was subjected by very usual sample extraction by Folch and a routine SPE (solid phase extraction) method. An easy and rapid derivatization by sodium methanolate was the next sample preparation step followed by GC FID measurement. Acquired data were computed by PCA (principal component analyses). We gained a well-arranged graphical output confirming our thesis that each AKH species has a different influence on FA composition in locust heamolymph; AKH II having the greatest influence.
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Eating habits of Secondary School Pupils in the Region of Hodonín.
VAŠÍČKOVÁ, Barbora
This thesis deals with the eating habits of students in primary schools. Characterized by the older school age. It describes the basic components of food and the recommended dose in adolescence. It examines the real income of the basic components of food and energy intakes for pubescents. The results are processed and presented in the practical part of thesis.
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A role of adipokinetic hormones in insect lipid metabolism
BÁRTŮ, Iva
This PhD. thesis summarizes the effect of adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) on a spectrum of mobilized lipids in model insect species the locust Locusta migratoria and the firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus. The results revealed that mobilization of diacylglycerols and fatty acids from the fat body into the haemolymph is not uniform and suggested there is partial specificity of individual AKHs. This could contribute to the answer of the question why some insect species have more than one AKH. The results of the thesis are supplemented by studies of AKH effect on lipid metabolism in stress conditions elicited by insecticide treatments. Co-application of AKH and insecticide enhanced the effect of insecticide
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Cold hardiness of larvae of the fruit fly, \kur{Drosophila melanogaster} (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
KORBELOVÁ, Jaroslava
We assessed survival of larvae of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster at low temperatures (0°C and 5°C) after rearing them under seven different acclimation regimes. Larvae that have developed in a standard diet at 25°C showed 50% mortality after 12,6 min of the exposure to 0°C (Lt50 = 0.21 h). In contrast, larvae that have developed in a diet enriched with glycerol at 15°C, and were cold acclimated at 5°C during last two days of their development, had Lt50 = 38.6 h. It means that it was possible to increase the Lt50 at 0°C more than 180-fold using simple manipulations with rearing temperatures and diet composition. The physiological differences in duration of larval development, fresh mass, dry mass, hydration and total contents of proteins, lipids and glycogen between the larvae belonging to different acclimation variants are described. The samples for future detailed metabolomic analysis were prepared.
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