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High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster
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Fly foie gras: modeling fatty liver in Drosophila
Nathalie Arquier1, Pierre Léopold
1University of Nice/CNRS UMR6543, Institute for Signaling, Developmental Biology and Cancer, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France.
Cell Metabolism
|February 6, 2007
Abstract:
Lipids provide an essential source of metabolites and energy in normal development as well as during periods of food deprivation. A recent study in Drosophila (Gutierrez et al., 2007) reveals a novel role in regulating lipid metabolism for specialized cells called oenocytes that present striking functional similarities to mammalian hepatocytes.
