Highlights•Gut innervation occurs through the central and stomatogastric nervous
systems.•Gut function depends on complex interplay of neuropeptides with similar …

Haematophagous insects can ingest large quantities of blood in a single meal and eliminate
high volumes of urine in the next few hours. This rise in diuresis is possible because the …

Background Cell-cell interactions are a basic principle for the organization of tissues and
organs allowing them to perform integrated functions and to organize themselves spatially …

Peptidic messengers constitute a highly diversified group of intercellular messengers widely
distributed in nature that regulate a great number of physiological processes in Metazoa …

Haematophagous insects incorporate a large quantity of blood with each meal, producing a
big quantity of urine in a few hours. The activity of the Malpighian tubules (MTs) is facilitated …

Chagas' disease, affecting up to 6–7 million people worldwide, is transmitted to humans
through the feces of triatomine kissing bugs. From these, Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma …

Allatotropin (AT) acts as a myoregulator at the level of the dorsal vessel (DV) and midgut
(MG) in triatominae insects. Previous analyses of the expression of the AT receptor in …

Allatotropins (ATs) are a family of neuropeptides that have been shown to stimulate the
biosynthesis of juvenile hormone in certain insect species, and to have stimulatory activity …

Allatotropin (AT) is a neuropeptide originally isolated from the brain of Manduca sexta and
then characterized in several insect species. It acts as a neurohormone, as well as a …

Mechanisms coordinating cell–cell interaction have appeared early in evolution. Allatotropin
(AT), a neuropeptide isolated based on its ability to stimulate the synthesis of juvenile …