Circulating Haemocytes in Insects: Phylogenic Review of Their Types

Journal Article

• نوع عمل المنشور: Original Research
• رابط المنشور على الويب: Circulating Haemocytes in Insects: Phylogenic Review of Their Types
• الوسوم: Circulating Haemocytes in Insects:
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Pakistan Journal of Zoology
• رقم العدد: 6
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 44
• الصفحات: 1743-1750

مستخلص المنشور

Abstract.- Insect haemocytes belong to different categories that carry out various immune functions in larvae and adults. Survey of their studies in different orders of insects would help and suggest that discrepancy in their nomenclature is based on the individual description of their shapes and metabolic contents and the same would be resolved by putting up their characteristics and features together to name different types of haemocytes consistently. Basically, there are three basic forms, prohaemocytes, plasmatocytes and granular haemocytes forming the bulk of the population. Other three types are spherulocytes or cystocytes, oenocytoids and adipohaemocytes. Plasmatocytes and granular haemocytes are functionally termed as immunocytes.