Maintaining the brain: Insight into human neurodegeneration from Drosophila melanogaster mutants

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 359-370

  Lessing, Derek ^a   Bonini, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIA; INSECT GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MUTANT; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUS;

EID: 67349251869     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2563     Document Type: Review

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