Drosophila
Subtitle: a toolbox for the study of neurodegenerative disease
By: edited by Amritpal Mudher, Tracey A. Newman.
Contributors: Mudher, Amritpal.; Newman, Tracey.
Series: Experimental biology reviews; SEB experimental biology series -- v. 60; Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology -- no. 60.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780415411851
Subjects: Nervous system -- Degeneration -- Animal models; Drosophila; Neurodegenerative Diseases -- physiopathology; Disease Models, Animal; Drosophila melanogaster
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modelling neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila / David Shepherd, Amritpal Mudher, and Tracey A. Newman; title: Drosophila genetics for the analysis of neurobiological disease / K.G. Moffat; title: Using Drosophila models to unravel pathogenic mechanisms that underlie neurodegeneration in tauopathies / Amritpal Mudher ... [et al.]; title: Modelling cell and isoform type specificity of tauopathies in Drosophila / Sofia Grammenoudi ... [et al.]; title: Using a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease / Damian C. Crowther ... [et al.]; title: Amyloid peptides and ion channel function in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease / Laurence A. Brown ... [et al.]; title: Genetic models of Parkinson's disease: mechanisms and therapies / Alexander J. Whitworth and Leo J. Pallanck; title: Modelling lysosomal storage disease in Drosophila / Sean T. Sweeney; title: Drosophila melanogaster in the study of epilepsy / Nara I. Muraro and Richard A. Baines; title: Hereditary spastic paraplegia genes in Drosophila : dissecting their roles in axonal degeneration and intracellular traffic / Xinnan Wang and Cahir J. O'Kane; title: Triplet repeat diseases : the role of fly models in understanding disease mechanisms and designing possible therapies / Zdenek Berger.