Title: Digestion of the human blood-meal by the mosquito, Aedes aegypti
Abstract: Abstract Analysis of extracts of tissues of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by means of ion-exchange chromatography revealed significant changes in the titres of several amino acids following a human blood-meal. The titres of taurine, a peptide, aspartic acid, threonine, serine, asparagine and/or glutamine, proline, glutamic acid, valine, leucine, tyrosine, lysine, and histidine increased significantly following the ingestion of a human blood-meal by the A. aegypti mosquito. The concentrations of both alanine and β-alanine decreased following the ingestion of a blood-meal. Comparison of the free amino acid levels following a human blood-meal to those after an avian blood-meal revealed three significant differences. Aspartic acid for example, did not increase significantly following the human blood-meal whereas it did in the case of the avian blood-meal. Nor did the concentration of isoleucine increase following the human blood-meal. Finally, the dipeptide carnosine was not found subsequent to the human blood-meal whereas it was a prominent peak after an avian blood-meal.
Publication Year: 1971
Publication Date: 1971-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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