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. 2021 Jun 25;12(7):651. doi: 10.1038/s41419-021-03926-y

Fig. 3. Diet interventions to improve nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism reduce neurodegeneration in flies expressing toxic Aβ.

Fig. 3

A The NAD+ levels of Aβ-expressing flies fed with the NAD+ precursor NAM are higher than those fed with normal food (mean ± SD; asterisks, one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparison test). Male flies were fed with food containing NAM post eclosion and sacrificed after day 15. B Pharmacological supplementation of NAM rescued Δψm in the brains of 5-day-old male flies (mean ± SD; asterisks, one-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparison test). C An illustration of the typical layout of the visible photoreceptors (red, R1–R7) at the surface of the adult Drosophila ommatidia (grey hexagon). D Transmission electron micrograph showing individual ommatidia (yellow outlines) in the eye of Aβ-Arc-expressing flies. Arrow points to an ommatidium where a photoreceptor neuron is missing. E Dietary supplementation with NAM (5 mM) rescues the neurodegeneration of photoreceptor cells in Aβ-Arc-expressing flies (asterisks, two-tailed chi-square test, 95% confidence interval). NF normal food. Genotypes: control, elavGal4>+; elav>Aβ-Arc, elavGal4>Aβ-Arc.