Old flies oxidize
In the December 5 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Zou et al. find that only some of the processes of aging in the fly can be explained by increased oxidative stress (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000, 97:13726-13731). Zou et al. analyze expression profiles of both aging flies and young flies exposed to the free-radical generator paraquat, using microarrays of approximately 8000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) that cover 30-40% of the Drosophila genome. Of these ESTs, 43 are upregulated
Dec 4, 2000
In the December 5