Caenorhabditis elegans life span studies: The challenge of maintaining synchronous cohorts

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 347-349

  Gruber, Jan ^a   Poovathingal, Suresh Kumar ^b   Schaffer, Sebastian ^a   Ng, Li Fang ^a   Gunawan, Rudiyanto ^b   Halliwell, Barry ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COHORT STUDIES; GENES, HELMINTH; LONGEVITY; MODELS, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77952369216     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2009.0943     Document Type: Article

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