Tuesday, 16 November 2004
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Jamaican field cricket, Gryllus assimilis, shows the immune-senescence during the adulthood

Youngjin Park, youngjin_P@hotmail.com, Alemtaye Andarge, alem@unlserve.unl.edu, and David W. Stanley, dstanley@unlnotes.unl.edu. University of Nebraska, Entomology, Insect Biochemical Physiology Laboratory, 311 Plant Industry Building, Lincoln, NE

Aging can cause immune-senescence in insect by increasing cell apoptosis and decreasing cellular immune response. We report that the micro-aggregation reaction of adult Jamaican field cricket, Gryllus assimilis, decreased 21 days after molting (F=20.12; df=4, 10; P=0.0001) while nodulation decreased 28 days after molting (F=21.39; df=4, 10; P=0.0001) when challenged by LPS (400ug/2ul). Total hemocyte counts declined after 21 days. The ratio of granularocytes increased on 28 days-old adults and after. However, the difference in water content was not significant in hemocoel (F=2.39; df=4, 20; P=0.0847). Our result shows that immune-senescence relate with cellular immune response in adult male cricket.


Species 1: Orthoptera Gryllidae Gryllus assimilis (Jamaican field cricket)
Keywords: immune-senescence, cellular immune response

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