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Heat Shock Proteins and Blood-Feeding in Arthropods

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Heat Shock Proteins in Veterinary Medicine and Sciences

Part of the book series: Heat Shock Proteins ((HESP,volume 12))

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The blood of endothermic vertebrates constitutes the main, or even the only food for many arthropod species. Even though blood is a food rich in nutrients and in most cases sterile, its consumption is associated to many stressing factors. Energetic, thermal, osmotic and oxidative stresses are among the consequences for arthropods of the rapid ingestion of large amounts of warm blood. To cope with these stressors, these animals have developed different physiological and molecular mechanisms allowing the reduction of the stress or the reparation of the infringed damage. Among the first, specific mechanisms of thermoregulation and rapid excretion have been identified. The rapid synthesis of HSP following each feeding event make parts of the mechanisms of molecular reparation. The increase in the HSP70 levels varies across species from about 3 to around 17 times the basal level. This variability in the molecular response is plausibly associated to the occurrence or not of complementary mechanisms for reducing the effect of the stressor, as for instance, thermoregulation. The reduction of HSP70 or HSP70/HSC70 expression does not affect the blood meal size, but impairs blood digestion by the insect.

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Acknowledgements

This work was possible thanks to the support received from the CAPES, FAPEMIG and CNPq (Brazil), and from the CNRS and the University of Tours in France.

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  1. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Marcos H. Pereira & Rafaela M. M. Paim

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Chloé Lahondère

  3. UMR CNRS 7261 - Université de Tours, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte, Tours, France

    Claudio R. Lazzari

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Pereira, M.H., Paim, R.M.M., Lahondère, C., Lazzari, C.R. (2017). Heat Shock Proteins and Blood-Feeding in Arthropods. In: Asea, A., Kaur, P. (eds) Heat Shock Proteins in Veterinary Medicine and Sciences. Heat Shock Proteins, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73377-7_13

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