A comparative study of fat storage quantitation in nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using label and label-free methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Yen, Kelvin ^a   Le, Thuc T ^b   Bansal, Ankita ^a   Narasimhan, Sri Devi ^a   Cheng, Ji Xin ^b,c,d   Tissenbaum, Heidi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; FAT DROPLET; INSULIN; LIPID; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; COLORING AGENT; FAT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL LABELING; COHERENT ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAF 2 GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; LIPID STORAGE; LYSOSOME; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RICT 1 GENE; SGK 1 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STAINING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLORING AGENTS; FATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 77958586133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012810     Document Type: Article

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