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High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster
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JoVE Journal Genetik
High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster

High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster

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08:28 min

September 13, 2017

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08:28 min
September 13, 2017

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This is a high fat diet feeding protocol to induce obesity in Drosophila, a model for understanding fundamental molecular mechanisms implicated in lipotoxicity. It also provides a high throughput triacylglyceride assay for measuring fat accumulation in Drosophila and potentially other (insect) models under various dietary, environmental, genetic or physiological conditions.

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