Human neurodegenerative disease insights from Drosophila genetics / Nancy Bonini.

• Contents: The fly as a model for human disease -- Modelling human polyglutamine disease -- Molecular chaperones as modifiers of polyglutamine disease using the fly -- Importance and impact of disease protein function for effects of the toxic mutant protein -- Insights from the fly on the mutational basis of disease, in instability of the trinucleotide repeat expansion.

Ämnesord

Neurodegenerative Diseases.  (MeSH)

Drosophila  -- genetics. (MeSH)