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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Jay Hesselberth
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-60822 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Mosher Jeremy J Zhang Wei W Blumhagen Rachel Z RZ D'Alessandro Angelo A Nemkov Travis T Hansen Kirk C KC Hesselberth Jay R JR Reis Tânia T
Developmental biology 20150721 2
The brain plays a critical yet incompletely understood role in regulating organismal fat. We performed a neuronal silencing screen in Drosophila larvae to identify brain regions required to maintain proper levels of organismal fat. When used to modulate synaptic activity in specific brain regions, the enhancer-trap driver line E347 elevated fat upon neuronal silencing, and decreased fat upon neuronal activation. Unbiased sequencing revealed that Arc1 mRNA levels increase upon E347 activation. We ...[more]