Specialized Cortex Glial Cells Accumulate Lipid Droplets in Drosophila melanogaster.

Specialized Cortex Glial Cells Accumulate Lipid Droplets in Drosophila melanogaster. Viktor Kis,* Benjámin Barti, Mónika Lippai, and Miklós Sass; PLoS One. 2015; 10(7): e0131250.
Published online 2015 July 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131250 OPEN ACCESS

While a large portion of the Drosophila neurodegeneration mutants (bubblegum, swiss cheese, loechrig, ApoD, frataxin, sicily) [19–23] affect lipid metabolism and disturb LD homeostasis, neither the cellular, nor the spatio-temporal distribution of LDs has been described to date in Drosophila. In this paper, we used the brain of the fruitfly to study lipid droplet anatomy in the larval nervous system.



Specialized Cortex Glial Cells Accumulate Lipid Droplets in Drosophila melanogaster.