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Mechanisms underlying hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: hairy as a metabolic switch.
PLoS genetics - 1 Oct 2008
Zhou Dan, Xue Jin, Lai James C K, Schork Nicholas J, White Kevin P, Haddad Gabriel G
Abstract excerpt
Hypoxia-induced cell injury has been related to multiple pathological conditions. In order to render hypoxia-sensitive cells and tissues resistant to low O2 environment, in this current study, we used Drosophila melanogaster as a model to dissect the mechanisms underlying hypoxia-tolerance. A D. melanogaster strain that lives perpetually in an extremely low-oxygen environment (4% O2, an oxygen level that is...
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