Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29128849›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2018

Genetic strategies to tackle neurological diseases in fruit flies.

Mümine Şentürk, Hugo J Bellen

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Genotype-Specific Electroretinogram Signatures inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. Modeling neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders in theLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024
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  12. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023
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  13. Delineating Purinergic Signaling inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  15. A Quantitative Model of Sporadic Axonal Degeneration in theThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  16. UsingFrontiers in pharmacology · 2022
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  18. Genes · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mümine ŞentürkProgram in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Hugo J BellenProgram in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, BCM, Houston TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, BCM, Houston TX 77030, USA; Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston TX 77030, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BCM, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: hbellen@bcm.edu.

Funding

Transposon induced disruption of most Drosophila genesR01GM067858 · NIGMS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BELLEN, HUGO J · 2003 to 2020
$15.7M
Zebrafish CoreU54NS093793 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BELLEN, HUGO J · 2015 to 2022
$7.5M
Expansion and characterization of the Drosophila Toolkit to study SARS-CoV-2R24OD022005 · OD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BELLEN, HUGO J · 2016 to 2023
$7.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067858NIH HHS R24 OD022005NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS093793
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drosophila melanogaster is a genetic model organism that has contributed to the discovery of numerous genes whose human homologues are associated with diseases. The development of sophisticated genetic tools to manipulate its genome accelerates the discovery of the genetic basis of undiagnosed human diseases and the elucidation of molecular pathogenic events of known and novel diseases. Here, we discuss various approaches used in flies to assess the function of the fly homologues of disease-associated genes. We highlight how systematic and combinatorial approaches based on recently established methods provide us with integrated tool sets that can be applied to the study of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.

Indexed as

Animals, Genetically ModifiedDisease Models, AnimalAnimalsDrosophilaHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesReverse Genetics

Identifiers

PMID29128849
PMCPMC5940587

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