Showing posts with label Wound healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wound healing. Show all posts

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Fly as a model for studying wound healing--review article

Muñoz-Soriano V, López-Domenech S, Paricio N. Why mammalian wound healing researchers may wish to turn to Drosophila as a model. Exp Dermatol. 2014 Jun 18. doi: 10.1111/exd.12472. PMID: 24942366.

From the abstract:  "In this paper, we discuss the benefits and limitations of using Drosophila in wound healing research, especially presenting this organism as a promising tool for the identification of new therapeutic targets and drugs in this context."

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Review: study of infectious pathogens in the fly model

Panayidou S, Ioannidou E, Apidianakis Y. Human pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses in Drosophila: Disease modeling, lessons, and shortcomings. Virulence. 2014 Jan 7;5(2). PMID: 24398387.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Cuts & closure. Fly models of wound healing. Recent methods report.

Burra S, Wang Y, Brock AR, Galko MJ. Using Drosophila larvae to study epidermal wound closure and inflammation. Methods Mol Biol. 2013;1037:449-61. PMID: 24029952.