Recent efforts to model human diseases in vivo in Drosophila

Fly

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 129-132

  Pfleger, Cathie M ^a   Reiter, Lawrence T ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Congenital heart disease; Glioma; Human disease models; Neurodegeneration; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EPILEPSY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETICS; GENOME; GLIOMA; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRION DISEASE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; EPILEPSY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENOME, INSECT; GLIOMA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OBESITY; PRION DISEASES;

EID: 77954633392     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.6332     Document Type: Article

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