Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Nov 14;7:15551. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15861-0

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Low-salt versus high-salt perception and the role of the NO/sGC/cGMP cascade. Low-salt solution (a–d) or high-salt solution (e–h) were offered to insects. (a,e) Feeding index of insects previously treated with control solution (CS), SNAC (NO donor), ODQ (sGC inhibitor), 8-Br-cGMP (cGMP analogue) or PTIO (NO scavenger). (b,c,f,g) EMG examples of insects feeding on low-Na when previously treated with CS (b) or SNAC (c) and of insects feeding on high-salt but previously treated with CS (f) or PTIO (g). EMG recordings lasted 10 minutes, although only 20 seconds are shown. (d,h) Pumping frequency of the cibarial musculature (in Hz, pumps per second) of treated insects with CS, ODQ, SNAC, 8-Br-cGMP or PTIO. Different letters denote significant differences (p < 0.05). Numbers of insects used are shown in brackets. B = insertion of mouthparts in the feeder, W = withdrawal of mouthparts.