Search Results - "Gould, Alex P."
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Antioxidant Role for Lipid Droplets in a Stem Cell Niche of Drosophila
Published in Cell (08-10-2015)“…Stem cells reside in specialized microenvironments known as niches. During Drosophila development, glial cells provide a niche that sustains the proliferation…”
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The sex of specific neurons controls female body growth in Drosophila
Published in PLoS biology (04-10-2017)“…Sexual dimorphisms in body size are widespread throughout the animal kingdom but their underlying mechanisms are not well characterized. Most models for how…”
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Early-life exposure to low-dose oxidants can increase longevity via microbiome remodelling in Drosophila
Published in Nature communications (07-03-2018)“…Environmental stresses experienced during development exert many long-term effects upon health and disease. For example, chemical oxidants or genetic…”
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The Development and Functions of Oenocytes
Published in Annual review of entomology (01-01-2014)“…Oenocytes have intrigued insect physiologists since the nineteenth century. Many years of careful but mostly descriptive research on these cells highlights…”
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Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Spares Organ Growth during Nutrient Restriction in Drosophila
Published in Cell (05-08-2011)“…Developing animals survive periods of starvation by protecting the growth of critical organs at the expense of other tissues. Here, we use Drosophila to…”
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Adipose triglyceride lipase protects renal cell endocytosis in a Drosophila dietary model of chronic kidney disease
Published in PLoS biology (04-05-2021)“…Obesity-related renal lipotoxicity and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are prevalent pathologies with complex aetiologies. One hallmark of renal lipotoxicity is…”
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Multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry quantifies stem cell division and metabolism
Published in Nature (London) (26-01-2012)“…Multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry is used to investigate the ‘immortal strand hypothesis’, Drosophila lipid metabolism and human lymphopoiesis…”
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Specialized hepatocyte-like cells regulate Drosophila lipid metabolism
Published in Nature (18-01-2007)“…Lipid metabolism is essential for growth and generates much of the energy needed during periods of starvation. In Drosophila, fasting larvae release large…”
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Developmental diet regulates Drosophila lifespan via lipid autotoxins
Published in Nature communications (09-11-2017)“…Early-life nourishment exerts long-term influences upon adult physiology and disease risk. These lasting effects of diet are well established but the…”
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Cryogenic OrbiSIMS Localizes Semi‐Volatile Molecules in Biological Tissues
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (05-10-2020)“…OrbiSIMS is a recently developed instrument for label‐free imaging of chemicals with micron spatial resolution and high mass resolution. We report a cryogenic…”
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Protection of Neuronal Diversity at the Expense of Neuronal Numbers during Nutrient Restriction in the Drosophila Visual System
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (28-03-2013)“…Systemic signals provided by nutrients and hormones are known to coordinate the growth and proliferation of different organs during development. However,…”
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Functions of Stress-Induced Lipid Droplets in the Nervous System
Published in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology (14-04-2022)“…Lipid droplets are highly dynamic intracellular organelles that store neutral lipids such as cholesteryl esters and triacylglycerols. They have recently…”
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Postmitotic specification of Drosophila insulinergic neurons from pioneer neurons
Published in PLoS biology (01-03-2008)“…Insulin and related peptides play important and conserved functions in growth and metabolism. Although Drosophila has proved useful for the genetic analysis of…”
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Temporal control of neuronal diversity: common regulatory principles in insects and vertebrates?
Published in Development (Cambridge) (01-11-2008)“…It is well established in species as diverse as insects and mammals that different neuronal and glial subtypes are born at distinct times during central…”
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Lipid droplet functions beyond energy storage
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids (01-10-2017)“…Lipid droplets are cytoplasmic organelles that store neutral lipids and are critically important for energy metabolism. Their function in energy storage is…”
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Sex-lethal in neurons controls female body growth in Drosophila
Published in Fly (Austin, Tex.) (03-04-2018)“…Sexual size dimorphism (SSD), a sex difference in body size, is widespread throughout the animal kingdom, raising the question of how sex influences existing…”
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Drosophila Spidey/Kar Regulates Oenocyte Growth via PI3-Kinase Signaling
Published in PLoS genetics (08-08-2016)“…Cell growth and proliferation depend upon many different aspects of lipid metabolism. One key signaling pathway that is utilized in many different anabolic…”
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Drosophila Grainyhead specifies late programmes of neural proliferation by regulating the mitotic activity and Hox-dependent apoptosis of neuroblasts
Published in Development (Cambridge) (01-09-2005)“…The Drosophila central nervous system is generated by stem-cell-like progenitors called neuroblasts. Early in development, neuroblasts switch through a…”
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Hypoxic regulation of hand1 controls the fetal-neonatal switch in cardiac metabolism
Published in PLoS biology (01-09-2013)“…Cardiomyocytes are vulnerable to hypoxia in the adult, but adapted to hypoxia in utero. Current understanding of endogenous cardiac oxygen sensing pathways is…”
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Quantification of fetal organ sparing in maternal low-protein dietary models
Published in Wellcome open research (2021)“…Maternal malnutrition can lead to fetal growth restriction. This is often associated with organ sparing and long-lasting physiological dysfunctions during…”
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