Dietary restriction of Caenorhabditis elegans by axenic culture reflects nutritional requirement for constituents provided by metabolically active microbes

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-252

  Lenaerts, Isabelle ^a   Walker, Glenda A ^b   Van Hoorebeke, Luc ^a   Gems, David ^b   Vanfleteren, Jacques R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Axenic culture; Caenorhabditis elegans; Dietary restriction; Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALORIE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIFESPAN; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44349145008     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/63.3.242     Document Type: Article

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