The Swiss cheese mutant causes glial hyperwrapping and brain degeneration in Drosophila

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 7425-7432

  Kretzschmar, Doris ^a,b   Hasan, Gaiti ^c   Sharma, Sugandha ^c   Heisenberg, Martin ^d   Benzer, Seymour ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult central nervous system; Apoptosis; Drosophila; Gila neuron interaction; Neurodegeneration; Reduced life span

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL INTERACTION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 0030864464     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-19-07425.1997     Document Type: Article

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