Dual role of preputial gland secretion and its major components in sex recognition of mice

2008 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Xu Zhang ◽  
Ying-Juan Liu ◽  
Jin-Hua Zhang ◽  
Lixing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role ◽  
Gland Secretion ◽  
Preputial Gland ◽  
Sex Recognition

scholarly journals Formicine ants swallow their highly acidic poison for gut microbial selection and control

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Tragust ◽  
Claudia Herrmann ◽  
Jane Häfner ◽  
Ronja Braasch ◽  
Christina Tilgen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Insects ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Poison Gland ◽  
Gland Secretion ◽  
Acidic Environment ◽  
Contaminated Food ◽  
Microbe Interactions ◽  
Host Microbe Interactions ◽  
And Control

AbstractAnimals continuously encounter microorganisms that are essential for health or cause disease. They are thus challenged to control harmful microbes while allowing acquisition of beneficial microbes. This challenge is likely especially important for social insects with respect to microbes in food, as they often store food and exchange food among colony members. Here we show that formicine ants actively swallow their antimicrobial, highly acidic poison gland secretion. The ensuing acidic environment in the stomach, the crop, limits establishment of pathogenic and opportunistic microbes ingested with food and improves survival of ants when faced with pathogen contaminated food. At the same time, crop acidity selectively allows acquisition and colonization by Acetobacteraceae, known bacterial gut associates of formicine ants. This suggests that swallowing of the poison gland secretion acts as a microbial filter in formicine ants and indicates a potentially widespread but so far underappreciated dual role of antimicrobials in host-microbe interactions.

Dual role of B7 costimulation in obesity-related non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and metabolic dysregulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 122 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Chatzigeorgiou ◽  
R Garcia-Martin ◽  
KJ Chung ◽  
I Alexaki ◽  
A Klotzsche-von Ameln ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role ◽  
Alcoholic Steatohepatitis ◽  
Metabolic Dysregulation

A dual role of the N-terminal FQQI motif in GLUT4 trafficking

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (S 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
U Bernhardt ◽  
HG Joost ◽  
H Al-Hasani
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role

Dual Role of RKIP in NF-kB Signaling Pathways

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Huihui Tang ◽  
Sungdae Park ◽  
Kam C. Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Signaling Pathways ◽  
Dual Role
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