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Local and Global Methods of Assessing Thermal Nociception in Drosophila Larvae
Published on: May 18, 2012
RNA Sequencing Dataset of Drosophila Nociceptor Translatomic Response to Injury
Christine M Hale1, Kyle J Beauchemin1, Courtney L Brann1
1College of Arts and Sciences, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME 04103, USA.
Abstract:
To prepare to address the mechanisms of injury-induced nociceptor sensitization, we sequenced the translatome of the nociceptors of injured Drososophila larvae and those of uninjured larvae. Third-instar larvae expressing a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged ribosomal subunit specifically in Class 4 dendritic arborization neurons, recognized as pickpocket-expressing primary nociceptors, via the GAL4/UAS method, were injured by ultraviolet light or sham-injured. Larvae were subjected to translating ribosome affinity purification for the GFP tag and nociceptor-specific ribosome-bound RNA was sequenced.

