| Description |
xix, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Current topics in developmental biology,
0070-2153 ;
volume 121
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Current topics in developmental biology ; v. 121.
0070-2153
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fly models of human diseases : Drosophila as a model for understanding human mitochondrial mutations and disease / A. Sen and R.T. Cox -- Drosophila as a model for human diseases -- focus on innate immunity in barrier epithelia / P. Bergman, S. Seyedoleslami Esfahani, and Y. Engström -- Drosophila melanogaster as a model of muscle degeneration disorders / R.E. Kreipke, Y.V. Kwon, H.R. Ruohala-Baker -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathogenesis converges on defects in protein homeostasis associated with TDP-43 mislocalization and proteasome-mediated degradation overload / G. Lin, D. Mao, and H.J. Bellen -- Mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease : lessons from Drosophila / V.L. Hewitt and A.J. Whitworth -- Neurotoxicity pathways in Drosophila models of the polyglutamine disorders / M. Krench and J.T. Littleton -- AxGxE : using flies to interrogate the complex etiology of neurodegenerative disease / C. Burke, K. Trinh, V. Nadar, and S. Sanyal -- Unraveling the neurobiology of sleep and sleep disorders using Drosophila / L. Chakravarti, E.H. Moscato, and M.S. Kayser -- Modeling human cancers in Dropsphila / M. Sonoshita and R.L. Cagan -- Stem-cell-based tumorigenesis in adult Drosophila / S.X. Hou and S.R. Singh -- The Drosophila accessory gland as a model for prostate cancer and other pathologies / C. Wilson, A. Leiblich, D.C.I. Goberdhan, and F. Hamdy -- Drosophila melanogaster models of galactosemia / J.M.I. Daenzer and J.L. Fridovich-Keil -- Drosophila as a model for diabetes and diseases of insulin reisistance / P. Graham and L. Pick. |
| Subject |
Diseases -- Animal models.
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Diseases -- Animal models. |
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Drosophila melanogaster.
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Drosophila melanogaster. |
| Added Author |
Pick, Leslie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128029046 hardback |
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0128029048 hardback |
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