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High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster
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Genetics
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JoVE Journal Genetics
High Fat Diet Feeding and High Throughput Triacylglyceride Assay in Drosophila Melanogaster
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08:28 min

September 13, 2017

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 01:08High Fat Diet Preparation
  • 02:15High Fat Diet Feeding
  • 03:32Weighing the Flies
  • 04:22Grinding the Flies
  • 05:50Sample Loading and TAG Content Determination
  • 06:54Results: Changes in Fat Content after High Fat Diet Feeding
  • 07:39Conclusion

Summary

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This is a high fat diet feeding protocol to induce obesity in Drosophila, a model for understanding fundamental molecular mechanisms implicated in lipotoxicity. It also provides a high throughput triacylglyceride assay for measuring fat accumulation in Drosophila and potentially other (insect) models under various dietary, environmental, genetic or physiological conditions.

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