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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Biol. 2008 Mar;211(Pt 5):741–748. doi: 10.1242/jeb.012955

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Human insulin provided in sucrose decreased total superoxide dismutase (SOD) and MnSOD activities in A. stephensi. Female mosquitoes were provided with 10% sucrose-soaked cotton pads with 1.7×10−4 μmol l−1 human insulin or with an equivalent volume of insulin buffer in sucrose. Cotton pads were changed twice daily. Every third day, insulin-fed and control mosquitoes were sampled for total SOD activity; the same samples were treated with KCN and re-analyzed to quantify MnSOD activity. Data are represented as mean enzyme activities for N=3 replicates.