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Neurociencias
Monitoring Brain Metabolite Transport in Drosophila Using FRET Sensors

Monitoring Brain Metabolite Transport in Drosophila Using FRET Sensors

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1Biomedical Neuroscience Institute,Universidad de Chile, 2Advanced Scientific Equipment Network (REDECA), Faculty of Medicine,Universidad de Chile, 3Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine,Universidad de Chile

Summary

Here we present a protocol to visualize the transport of monocarboxylates, glucose, and ATP in glial cells and neurons using genetically encoded Förster resonance energy transfer-based sensors in an ex-vivo Drosophila larval brain preparation.

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