Neurodegeneration in Drop-Dead Mutant Drosophila melanogaster Is Associated with the Respiratory System but Not with Hypoxia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Sansone, Christine Lynn ^a   Blumenthal, Edward M ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DRD GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HYPOXIA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LDH GENE; LETHALITY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIMILAR GENE; TANGO GENE; TRACHEA; TRACHEA DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOXIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; TRACHEA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84880000591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068032     Document Type: Article

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