Identification of a novel function of the silkworm integument in nitrogen metabolism: Uric acid is synthesized within the epidermal cells in B. mori

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Morus 100%
• Bombyx 95%
• Epidermal Cells 79%
• Uric Acid 69%
• Nitrogen 67%
• Insecta 24%
• Epidermis 22%
• Larva 16%
• Poisons 11%
• Hemolymph 10%
• Fat Body 10%
• Sunlight 9%
• Gene Targeting 8%
• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats 8%
• Ammonia 8%
• Pigmentation 8%
• Mutagenesis 7%
• Vertebrates 6%

Agriculture & Biology

• nitrogen metabolism 76%
• uric acid 76%
• integument 72%
• silkworms 70%
• B-lymphocytes 67%
• epidermis (animal) 23%
• insects 14%
• excretion 12%
• Lepidoptera 12%
• larvae 9%
• synthesis 8%
• fat body 8%
• gene targeting 8%
• Bombyx mori 7%
• pigmentation 7%
• mutagenesis 7%
• hemolymph 7%
• solar radiation 6%
• ammonia 6%
• pigments 5%
• vertebrates 5%

Chemical Compounds

• Uric Acid 74%
• Pharmacological Metabolism 53%
• Nitrogen 41%
• White 16%
• Toxic 14%
• Fat 9%
• Amount 8%
• Ammonia 7%
• Environment 5%