Abstract
The effects of amino acids on the labellar hair chemosensory cells were examined with two kinds of flies (the fleshfly, Boettcherisca peregrina, and the blowfly, Phormia regina). As a result of this examination, the effects of amino acids were divided into four main classes. Amino acids in class 1 did not stimulate any chemoreceptor cell. Amino acids in class 2 inhibited nonspecifically the discharges from three kinds of chemosensory cells. Amino acids in class 3 stimulated the salt receptor cell. Amino acids in class 4 stimulated the sugar receptor cell. A possibility that a fourth neuron in the labellar hair chemosensory cell might be a protein or an amino acid receptor cell was eliminated.
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