Using Drosophila melanogaster to uncover human disease gene function and potential drug target proteins

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 387-399

  Reiter, Lawrence T ^a   Bier, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross genomics; Disease models; Drosophila; Model organisms

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GALACTOSE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 40; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MORPHOGEN; POLYGLUTAMINE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG TARGETING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036072565     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.6.3.387     Document Type: Review

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