Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Methylene blue rescues heart defects in a Drosophila model of Friedreich's ataxia

Methylene blue rescues heart defects in a Drosophila model of Friedreich's ataxia. Hervé Tricoire, Amandine Palandri, Arthur Bourdais, Jean-Michel Camadro and Véronique Monnier. Hum. Mol. Genet. (2013) doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddt493.

KEYWORDS: Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA), Drosophila, neurons, glial cells, methylene blue (MB), alternative electron carrier.