TY - JOUR
T1 - Similar effects of high-fructose and high-glucose feeding in a Drosophila model of obesity and diabetes
AU - Musselman, Laura Palanker
AU - Fink, Jill L.
AU - Baranski, Thomas J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Musselman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - As in mammals, high-sucrose diets lead to obesity and insulin resistance in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster (called Drosophila hereafter). To explore the relative contributions of glucose and fructose, sucrose’s component monosaccharides, we compared their effects on larval physiology. Both sugars exhibited similar effects to sucrose, leading to obesity and hyperglycemia. There were no striking differences resulting from larvae fed high glucose versus high fructose. Some small but statistically significant differences in weight and gene expression were observed that suggest Drosophila is a promising model system for understanding monosaccharide-specific effects on metabolic homeostasis.
AB - As in mammals, high-sucrose diets lead to obesity and insulin resistance in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster (called Drosophila hereafter). To explore the relative contributions of glucose and fructose, sucrose’s component monosaccharides, we compared their effects on larval physiology. Both sugars exhibited similar effects to sucrose, leading to obesity and hyperglycemia. There were no striking differences resulting from larvae fed high glucose versus high fructose. Some small but statistically significant differences in weight and gene expression were observed that suggest Drosophila is a promising model system for understanding monosaccharide-specific effects on metabolic homeostasis.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0217096
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0217096
M3 - Article
C2 - 31091299
AN - SCOPUS:85065905444
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 5
M1 - e0217096
ER -