RNDr. Karel Sláma, CSc.

Job Position: Former employee - Laboratory of Insect Physiology

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Phone: 420233022482
E-mail: slama@entu.cas.cz

Publications
Total found: 180 records
Čižmár D., Roller L., Pillerová M., Sláma K., Žitňan D. (2019) Multiple neuropeptides produced by sex-specific neurons control activity of the male accessory glands and gonoducts in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Scientific Reports 9 : article number: 2253.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38761-x
Sláma K., Zhylitskaya H. (2016) Comprehensive physiology and toxicology of ecdysogens - The metabolically activated porphyrin-ecdysteroid complexes in insects. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C 181-182 : 55-67.
Farkaš R., Sláma K. (2015) Respiratory metabolism of salivary glands during the late larval and prepupal development of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 81 : 109-117.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.06.013
Sláma K. (2015) A new look at the nature of insect juvenile hormone: 50 years of experience. Journal of Insect Physiology submitted.
Sláma K. (2015) A new look at the nature insect juvenile hormone with particular reference to studies carried out in the Czech Republic. European Journal of Entomology 112 : 567-590.
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2015.073
Paroulek M., Sláma K. (2014) Production of the sesquiterpenoid, juvenile hormone-1 (JH-I), and of vitamin E in the accessory sexual (colleterial) glands of adult male moths, Hyalophora cecropia (Linnaeus, 1758), (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Life-The Excitement of Biology 2 : 102-124.
DOI: 10.9784/LEB2(2)Paroulek.01
Sláma K. (2014) A new look at the nature of insect juvenile hormone: 50 years of experience. Chemické listy 108 : 104-105.
Sláma K. (2014) What are ecdysteroids: insect hormones, essential mammalian D-vitamins or polar sterol used for growth in plants? Chemické listy 108 : 117.
Zhylitskaya H., Khripach V., Sláma K. (2014) Ecdysogens: porphyrin-ecdysteroid complexes liberating 20-hydroxyecdysone by insect metabolism Chemické listy 108 : 122.
Sláma K. (2013) Insect hormones: more than 50-years after the discovery of insect juvenile hormone analogues (JHA, juvenoids). Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 6 : 257-333.
DOI: 10.1163/18749836-06041073
Sláma K., Aulický R., Lukáš J. (2013) Functional structural similarity between insect and human hearts: Electrocardiography of insect hearts for screening of new cardioactive drugs In: Proceedings from Cardiotechnik 2013: International Congress on Cardiomuscular Technologies, September 19-21, 2013, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 5-12. ISBN 978-989-8565-78-5.
Sláma K., Denlinger D. (2013) Transitions in the heartbeat pattern during pupal diapause and adult development in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis. Journal of Insect Physiology 59 : 767-780.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2013.05.003
Sláma K., Lukáš J. (2013) Role of juvenile hormone in the hypermetabolic production of water revealed by the O2 consumption and thermovision images of larvae of insects fed a diet of dry food. European Journal of Entomology 110 : 221-230.
Sláma K. (2012) Cardioactive or inactive neuropeptides of insects. In: M. Tufail & M. Takeda (Eds): Hemolymph Proteins and Functional Peptides: Recent Advances in Insects and Other Arthropods. Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 78-93.
Sláma K. (2012) Neuromuscular paralysis induced in insect larvae by the proteinic venom of a parasitic wasp. Paralysis: Causes, Classification and Treatments. Advances in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 43. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York 195-212.
Sláma K. (2012) A new look at the comparative physiology of insect and human hearts Journal of Insect Physiology 58 : 1072-1081.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.04.014
Sláma K., Jedlička P. (2012) Respiratory metabolism of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemipetra: Aphididae). European Journal of Entomology 109 : 491-502.
Sláma K. (2011) A myth about tle „potent cardiostimulating“ action of insect neuropeptides has been unfounded. Collection Symposium Series 13 130-135.
Sláma K., Lukáš J. (2011) Myogenic nature of insect heartbeat and intestinal peristalsis, revealed by neuromuscular paralysis caused by the sting of a braconid wasp. Journal of Insect Physiology 57 : 251-259..
Sláma K. (2010) A new look at discontinuous respiration in pupae of Hyalophora cecropia (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae): Haemocoelic pressure, extracardiac pulsations and O2 consumption Eur. J. Entomol. 107 : 487-507.

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