...Tania Y. Estévez-Lao; Leah T. Sigle; Scherly N. Gomez; Julián F. Hillyer ABSTRACT The circulatory and immune systems of mosquitoes are functionally integrated. An infection induces the migration of hemocytes to the dorsal vessel, and specifically, to the regions surrounding the ostia of the heart...

...Leah T. Sigle; Julián F. Hillyer ABSTRACT The primary pump of the circulatory system of insects is a dorsal vessel that traverses the length of the insect. The anterior portion, located in the head, neck and thorax, is the aorta, and the posterior portion, located in the abdomen, is the heart. Here...

... that the wing heart is located underneath the scutellum and is separate from the dorsal vessel. It is composed of a single pulsatile diaphragm (indicating that it is unpaired) that contracts at 3 Hz and circulates hemolymph throughout both wings. The wing heart contracts significantly faster than the dorsal...

... of hemolymph in the antennal space. Dorsal vessel Hemolymph Hemocoel Neuropeptide Diptera Anopheles gambiae Insects have an open circulatory system that transports nutrients, waste, hormones, immune factors and other molecules to all regions of the body ( Chapman et al., 2013 ; Klowden...

... studies that have measured the cardioacceleratory activity of CCAP in a true in vivo context, without the dissection of the outer cuticle and the immersion of the dorsal vessel in a non-hemolymph solution. Fig. 6. Effect of CCAP injection on cardiac hemolymph flow velocity. Tracking of red...

... in semi-intact heart preparations of the blowfly Phormia regina (Meigen). J. Comp. Physiol. B 165 , 165 -170. Angioy, A. M., Boassa, D. and Dulcis, D. ( 1999 ). Functional morphology of the dorsal vessel in the adult fly Protophormia terraenovae (Diptera, Calliphoridae). J. Morphol. 240 , 15...