Drosophila Models for Human Diseases

Masamitsu Yamaguchi received his PhD from Osaka University and is currently a Professor of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology. He is a former director of the Advanced Insect Research Promotion Center at Kyoto Institute of Technology.

• Ch1 Drosophila as a model organism.-Ch2 Adult intestine aging model.-Ch3 Alzheimer’s disease model.-Ch 4 Parkinson’s disease model.-Ch 5 Repeat expansion disease model.-Ch 6 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis model.-Ch7 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease model.-Ch8 Role of long non-coding RNA in neurological diseases.-Ch9 Muscular dystrophy model.-Ch10 Cancer model.-Ch11 Leukemia model.-Ch12 Diseases of replication /repair genes.-Ch13 Drosophila models for studying UPR in insulin-like peptide producing cells and onset of type I diabetes.-Ch14 Metabolomics study on Drosophila models.-Ch15 Humanized flies for functional analysis of the human genome and cross-species comparison.-Ch16 Designs for Flies