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Published on: February 10, 2017
Luteolin alleviated damage caused by blue light to Drosophila
Lichao Zhong1, Hao Tang1, Yifan Xu1
1School of Artificial Intelligence, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China.
Abstract:
Short-wavelength blue light is commonly found in daily life and is harmful to health. In this experiment, we investigated the effect of luteolin on the survival time of Drosophila under the blue light condition of 3000 Lux using Drosophila as the model organism. The results showed that luteolin alleviated the damage suffered by Drosophila under blue light irradiation, significantly prolonged the survival time of Drosophila, prolonged the survival time of male Drosophila in the heat stress assay, increased the activity of female Drosophila in the spontaneous activity assay, and increased the egg production of female Drosophila at the highest concentration, and there was no significant difference in the food intake experiment. We suggest that the increase in survival time of Drosophila under blue light conditions is due to the function of luteolin in resisting oxidative stress.

