Modeling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila: On a wing and a prayer

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 161-167

  Fortini, Mark E ^a   Bonini, Nancy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIC ESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PRESENILIN 1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLON POLYPOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 0034176088     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01939-3     Document Type: Review

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