The effects of galactose ingestion and selected pharmacological agents on lifespan, climbing ability, and the expression of <i>superoxide dismutase</i> and <i>catalase</i> in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
The research presented here involves behavioural, pharmacological, genetic, and molecular biological characterization of a D-galactose model of advanced aging in the fruitfly, <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>. Oregon-R wild-type (WT), a heterozygous superoxide dismutase (Sod)-deficient mut...
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University of Saskatchewan
2008
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Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-10092008-133827/ |