title: How Brain Fat Conquers Stress.
abstract: A new paper by Bailey et al. reveals that lipid droplets, crucial organelles for energy storage, can also protect against oxidative stress. In Drosophila larvae, lipid droplets in glia allow neuronal stem cells to keep proliferating under hypoxic conditions. Protection likely involves sequestering vulnerable membrane lipids away from reactive oxygen species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Rochester, RC Box 270211, 317 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. Electronic address: michael.welte@rochester.edu.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Welte
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D066292:Lipid Droplets / Q000378:metabolism*; D055153:Stem Cell Niche / Q000187:drug effects*