Analyses of C. elegans Fat Metabolic Pathways

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 383-407

  Barros, Alexandre Guimarães de Almeida ^a   Liu, Jason ^b   Lemieux, George A ^c   Mullaney, Brendan C ^b   Ashrafi, Kaveh ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freeze thawing; Homeostatic; Quantitation; Storage; Triglyceride; Xenobiotic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855465409     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394620-1.00013-8     Document Type: Chapter

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