High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae

<p> Obesity is known to lower the quality of life of organisms and much effort has gone towards reporting the interactions between obesity and the immune response with one example being the metabolic syndrome caused by obesity-related inflammation. Work using <i>Drosophila</i> has...

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Main Author: Huynhle, Marvin
Language:EN
Published: California State University, Long Beach 2017
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Online Access:http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10288987