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Maestro, J.L., Cobo, J., Bellés, X. (2009) TOR mediates the transduction of nutritional signals into juvenile hormone production.
Journal of Biochemical Chemistry 284, 5506-5513.
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Peptides 29, 386-392.
- Aguilar, R., Maestro, J.L., Bellés, X. (2006). Effects of myoinhibitory peptides on food intake in the German cockroach.
Physiological Entomology 31, 257-261.
- Maestro, J.L., Bellés, X. (2006). Silencing allatostatin expression using double-stranded RNA targeted to preproallatostatin mRNA in the German cockroach.
Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 62, 73-79.
- Bellés, X., Maestro, J.L. (2005). Endocrine peptides and insect reproduction. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 47, 23-37.
- Aguilar, R., Maestro, J.L., Vilaplana, L., Chiva, C., Andreu, D., Bellés, X. (2004). Identification of leucomyosuppressin in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, as an inhibitor of food intake.
Regulatory Peptides 119: 105-112.
- Cruz, J., Martín, D., Pascual, N., Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Bellés, X. (2003). Quantity does matter. Juvenile hormone and the onset of vitellogenesis in the German cockroach.
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 33: 1219-1225.
- Aguilar, R., Maestro, J.L., Vilaplana, L., Pascual, N., Piulachs, M.D., Bellés, X. (2003). Allatostatin gene expression in brain and midgut, and activity of synthetic allatostatins on feeding-related processes in the cockroach Blattella germanica.
Regulatory Peptides 115: 171-177.
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and H. Vaudry. Monduzzi Editore. Bologna, Italy.
- Maestro, J.L., Aguilar, R., Pascual, N., Valero, M.L., Piulachs, M.D., Andreu, D., Navarro, I., Bellés, X. (2001) Screening of antifeedant activity in brain extracts led to the identification of sulfakinin as a satiety promoter in the German cockroach. Are arthropod sulfakinins homologous to vertebrate gastrins-cholecystokinins?
European Journal of Biochemistry 268: 5824-5830.
- Bellés, X., Piulachs, M.D., Pascual, N., Maestro, J.L., Martín, D., Vilaplana, L. (1999) Regulation of vitellogenesis in the German cockroach and the problem of cyclicity. In: “Recent Developments in Comparative Endocrinology and Neurobiology” pp 223-227. Editors: E.W. Roubos, S.E. Wendelaar Bonga, H. Vaudry
and A. De Loof. Shauer Publ. Maastricht, Holland.
- Duve, H., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.G., Jaros, P.P., Thorpe, A. (1999) Multiple neuropeptides of the allatostatin superfamily in the shore crab Carcinus maenas: comparison with insect allatostatins. In: “Recent Developments in Comparative Endocrinology and Neurobiology” pp 84-86. Editors: E.W. Roubos, S.E. Wendelaar Bonga, H. Vaudry
and A. De Loof. Shauer Publ. Maastricht, Holland.
- Vilaplana, L., Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Bellés, X. (1999) Modulation of cardiac rhythm by allatostatins in the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae).
Journal of Insect Physiology 45: 1057-1064.
- Vilaplana, L., Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Bellés, X. (1999) Determination of allatostatin levels in relation to the gonadotropic cycle in the female of Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae).
Physiological Entomology 24: 213-219.
- Maestro, J.L., Bellés, X., Piulachs, M.D., Thorpe, A., Duve, H. (1998) Localization of allatostatin-immunoreactive material in the central nervous system, stomatogastric nervous system and gut of the cockroach Blattella germanica.
Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 37: 269-282.
- Duve, H., Thorpe, A., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.G., East, P. (1998) The dipteran Leu-callatostatins: structural and functional diversity in an insect neuroendocrine paptide family. In: “Recent Advances in Arthropod Endocrinology” pp 229-247. Editors: G.M. Coast
and S.M. Webster. SEB Seminar Series 65. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
- Duve, H., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.G., Jaros, P.P., Thorpe, A. (1998) Isolation and identification of multiple neuropeptides of the allatostatin superfamily in the shore crab Carcinus maenas.
European Journal of Biochemistry 250: 727-734.
- Duve, H., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.G., Winstanley, D., Davey, M., East, P.D., Thorpe, A. (1997) Lepidopteran peptides of the allatostatin superfamily.
Peptides 18: 1301-1309.
- Duve, H., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.J., Crook, N., Winstanley, D., Thorpe, A. (1997) Identification, tissue localisation and physiological effect in vitro of a neuroendocrine peptide identical to a dipteran Leu-callatostatin in the codling moth Cydia pomonella (Tortricidae: Lepidoptera).
Cell and Tissue Research 289: 73-83.
- Duve, H., Johnsen, A.H., Maestro, J.L., Scott, A.G., East, P.D., Thorpe, A.(1996). Identification of the dipteran Leu-callatostatin peptide family: the pattern of precursor processing revealed by isolation studies in Calliphora vomitoria.
Regulatory Peptides 67: 11-19.
- Maestro, J.L., Danés, M.D., Piulachs, M.D., Cassier, P., Bellés, X. (1994). Juvenile hormone inhibition in corpora allata from ovariectomized Blattella germanica.
Physiological Entomology 19: 342-348.
- Bellés, X., Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Johnsen, A., Duve, H., Thorpe, A. (1994). Allatostatic neuropeptides from the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). Identification, immunolocalization and activity. Regulatory
Peptides 53: 237-247.
- Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Bellés, X. (1993). Autoinhibition of juvenile hormone production. The case of the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.).
Experientia. 49: 320-323.
- Gutiérrez, J., Párrizas, M., Carneiro, N., Maestro, J.L., Maestro, M.A., Planas, J. (1993). Insulin and IGF-I receptors and tyrosine kinase activity in carp ovaries: changes with reproductive cycle.
Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 11: 247-254.
- Navarro, I., Carneiro, M.N., Párrizas, M., Maestro, J.L., Planas, J., Gutiérrez, J. (1993) Post-feeding levels of insulin and glucagon in trout (Salmo trutta fario).
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 104A: 389-393.
- Piulachs, M.D., Maestro, J.L., Bellés, X. (1992). Juvenile hormone production and accessory reproductive gland development during sexual maturation of male Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae).
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 102A: 477-480.
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