Browsing by Subject "digestive system"
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Challenge of Drosophila melanogaster with Cryptococcus neoformans and role of the innate immune response
(2004)We found that the ingestion of Cryptococcus neoformans by Drosophila melanogaster resulted in the death of the fly but that the ingestion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or the nonpathogenic Cryptococcus kuetzingii or Cryptococcus ...
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Developmental biology: Our fly cousins' gut
(2008)What do we humans have in common with flies? Quite a lot, at least at the cellular and molecular levels. Our intestine, for instance, is similar to that of the fly, not only in function but also in its development and ...
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Drosophila melanogaster as a model for human intestinal infection and pathology
(2011)Recent findings concerning Drosophila melanogaster intestinal pathology suggest that this model is well suited for the study of intestinal stem cell physiology during aging, stress and infection. Despite the physiological ...