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The Effects Of Heart Medication On The Heart Rates Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Felicia A. Baer
The Effects Of Heart Medication On The Heart Rates Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Felicia A. Baer
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Background
Current animal models of human cardiac disease may be similar in anatomy and physiology but are often expensive and tedious to work with. The current need is for a model organism that is more efficient to work with in the lab but that still provides an accurate model of human cardiac disease. Drosophila melanogaster (D. mel) is such a candidate. While 74% of the genes coding for protein are conserved between D. mel and human hearts, it is unknown if cardiac medication used in humans, such as atropine and propranolol hydrochloride, similarly affect heart rate. I hypothesized that …