Drosophila Atg7: Required for stress resistance, longevity and neuronal homeostasis, but not for metamorphosis

Autophagy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-358

  Juhász, Gábor ^a,b   Neufeld, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aging; Atg7; Autophagy; Drosophila; Metamorphosis; Neurodegeneration; Starvation; Stress resistance

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN ATG7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA; HOMEOSTASIS; LONGEVITY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 41449108666     PISSN: 15548627     EISSN: 15548635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/auto.5572     Document Type: Article

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