CCAP exerts a reversible and dose-dependant cardio-stimulatory effect on the semi-isolated heart of experimental beetles. CCAP also increases free hemolymph sugar concentration in young larvae and adults of the meal-worm beetle [1].

1: Pleiotropic effects of the neuropeptides CCAP and myosuppressin in the beetle, Tenebrio molitor L. Wasielewski O, Skonieczna M; J Comp Physiol [B]. 2008; [Epub ahead of print] PMID:18521612