Lipid metabolism is fundamental to life. In insects, it is critical, during reproduction, flight,
starvation, and diapause. The coordination center for insect lipid metabolism is the fat body …

More than a third of the world population is at constant risk of contracting some insect-
transmitted disease, such as Dengue fever, Zika virus disease, malaria, Chagas' disease …

Rhodnius prolixus, a vector of Chagas disease, is a hematophagous insect that feeds
exclusively on blood. Each blood meal is digested within the first fourteen days after feeding …

The blood-sucking hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus is a vector of Chagas disease, one of the
most neglected tropical diseases affecting several million people, mostly in Latin America …

Lipid metabolism in fish which is a complex phenomenon has been studied in the past few
years as its gradually gaining interest from researchers. Lipids serve essential roles in both …

Trypanosoma rangeli is a protozoan parasite that infects triatomines and mammals in the
Americas, producing mixed infections with Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of …

Rhodnius prolixus is a hematophagous insect, vector of Chagas disease. After feeding, as
blood is slowly digested, amino acids are used as substrates to fuel lipid synthesis, and …

In the process of inflammatory activation, macrophages exhibit lipid metabolism disorders
and accumulate lipid droplets. Kupffer cells (KCs) are the resident hepatic macrophage with …

The energy stored in fatty acids is essential for several critical activities of insects, such as
embryogenesis, oviposition, and flight. Rhodnius prolixus is an obligatory hematophagous …

Rhodnius prolixus is an obligatorily hematophagous insect known as an important vector of
Chagas disease. Autophagy is a conserved cellular mechanism that acts in response to …