Related Experiment Videos
Age affects the metabolic rate of insect brain
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development
|December 1, 1984
Abstract:
Brains of adult insects can be isolated and studied in vitro. In female blowflies the oxygen uptake of the brain is age dependent. A steady increase is followed by a precipitous decrease around the middle of the little span. These changes are accompanied by alterations of mitochondrial structure and deposits of lipofuscin-like material.