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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 117, Issue 29, Pages 17269-17277Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003909117
Keywords
neural injury; glial response; stress response; traumatic brain injury; Drosophila
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- predoctoral Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship
- NIH [R35-NS097275, NS088176]
- Paul G. Allen Frontiers group
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the strongest environmental risk factor for the accelerated development of neurodegenerative diseases. There are currently no therapeutics to address this due to lack of insight into mechanisms of injury progression, which are challenging to study in mammalian models. Here, we have de-veloped and extensively characterized a head-specific approach to TBI in Drosophila, a powerful genetic system that shares many con-served genes and pathways with humans. The Drosophila TBI (dTBI) device inflicts mild, moderate, or severe brain trauma by precise compression of the head using a piezoelectric actuator. Head -injured animals display features characteristic of mammalian TBI, including severity-dependent ataxia, life span reduction, and brain degeneration. Severe dTBI is associated with cognitive decline and transient glial dysfunction, and stimulates antioxidant, proteasome, and chaperone activity. Moreover, genetic or environmental aug-mentation of the stress response protects from severe dTBI-induced brain degeneration and life span deficits. Together, these findings present a tunable, head-specific approach for TBI in Dro-sophila that recapitulates mammalian injury phenotypes and under-scores the ability of the stress response to mitigate TBI-induced brain degeneration.
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