Acute exposure of Nicotine during Drosophila puncture injury activates an epidermal wound response reaction
Epidermal wound reaction after injury can be visualized in Drosophila melanogaster embryos by transgenic fluorescent wound reporters. A “local” reaction is limited to the epidermal cells surrounding a wound site occurs in wildtype embryos. A “global” reaction extends beyond the wound site to all epi...
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Published in | microPublication biology Vol. 2021 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Caltech Library
01.01.2021
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Summary: | Epidermal wound reaction after injury can be visualized in
Drosophila melanogaster
embryos by transgenic fluorescent wound reporters. A “local” reaction is limited to the epidermal cells surrounding a wound site occurs in
wildtype
embryos. A “global” reaction extends beyond the wound site to all epidermal cells occurs in immune response mutants (e.g.
Flotillin-2
and
Toll
). The aim of this investigation is to explore the effect of nicotine on the localization of
Drosophila
wound reaction. Nicotine may have the potential to negatively affect wound repair by inhibiting a local reaction, and ultimately impeding epidermal wound recovery in
Drosophila
. We find nicotine exposure activates a global reaction after puncture injury of
Drosophila
embryos
.
Determining the effect of nicotine exposure on wound reaction in
Drosophila
may lead to improved understanding of how nicotine use in humans may influence wound healing after tissue damage. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 MJ: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review and editing CC: Investigation, Visualization, Writing - original draft |
ISSN: | 2578-9430 |
DOI: | 10.17912/micropub.biology.000415 |