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dc.contributor.authorDalui, Shauryabrota-
dc.contributor.authorBhattacharyya, Arindam-
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-11T04:47:21Z-
dc.date.available2015-02-11T04:47:21Z-
dc.date.issued2014-12-
dc.identifier.issn0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/30508-
dc.description567-573en_US
dc.description.abstractThere are several reports on herbicide paraquat (PQ)-induced Parkinsonian-like pathology in different animal models, including Drosophila melanogaster. Also, the role of some inflammatory factors, such as nitric oxide is reported in PQ-induced neuroinflammation of Drosophila. Although invertebrate model is valuable to study the conserved inflammatory pathway at the time of neurodegeneration, but neuroinflammation during PQ-mediated neurodegeneration has not been studied explicitly in Drosophila. In this study, the inflammatory response was examined in Drosophila model during PQ-induced neurodegeneration. We found that after exposure to PQ, survivability and locomotion ability were affected in both sexes of Drosophila. Behavioural symptoms indicated similar physiological features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in different animal models, as well as in humans. Our study revealed alteration in proinflamatory factor, TNF-α and Eiger (the Drosophila homologue in TNF superfamily) was changed in PQ-treated Drosophila both at protein and mRNA level during neurodegeneration. To ensure the occurrence of neurodegeneration, tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) positive neuronal cell loss was considered as a hallmark of PD in the fly brain. Thus, our result revealed the conserved inflammatory events in terms of expression of TNF-α and Eiger present during a sublethal dose of PQ-administered neurodegeneration in male and female Drosophila with significant variation in proinflamatory factor level among both the sexes. en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNISCAIR-CSIR, Indiaen_US
dc.rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Indiaen_US
dc.sourceIJBB Vol.51(6) [December 2014]en_US
dc.subjectParaquaten_US
dc.subjectDrosophilaen_US
dc.subjectNeurodegenerationen_US
dc.subjectPro-inflammatory factorsen_US
dc.titleHerbicide paraquat induces sex-specific variation of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in Drosophila melanogasteren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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