Thermogenetic Activation and No-choice Feeding Assay
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Food Dye Extraction and Colorimetric Quantification of Food Consumption
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Results: Amount of Food Eaten per Larva under Neuronal Thermogenetic-activation Conditions in Three Macronutrient Balancing Diets
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Conclusion
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Our protocol enables identification of larval neuronal populations encoding nutritional choices related to the control of the intake levels of two major macronutrients, proteins and carbohydrates. The simplicity and relatively high throughput of o
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Described here is a protocol that enables the colorimetric quantification of the amount of food eaten within a defined interval of time by Drosophila melanogaster larvae exposed to diets of different macronutrient quality. These assays are conducted in the context of a neuronal thermogenetic screen.
