Nervous tissue. Nervous tissue or nerve tissue is the main tissue component of the two parts of the nervous system; the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and the branching peripheral nerves of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), which regulates and controls bodily functions and activity.
Transmission. Mosquitoes carry the parasite that causes heartworm disease from animal to animal. The life cycle of a heartworm begins when a mosquito bites an infected animal carrying heartworm microfilariae in its blood.If that mosquito bites another cat or dog, it transmits the larvae to that animal.The larvae mature into adult worms in the heart and lungs of the host animal.he life cycle of a heartworm begins when a mosquito bites an infected animal carrying heartworm microfilariae in its blood. If that mosquito bites another cat or dog, it transmits the larvae to that animal. The larvae mature into adult worms in the heart and lungs of the host animal.
Heartworms are spread to dogs through mosquito bites. Up to 14 inches long, a heartworm lives in the heart and the arteries that carry blood from the heart to the lungs. Heartworms affect how the heart functions and how blood clots and is likely to cause death if untreated. Monthly heartworm preventives are effective.