Biochemical and high throughput microscopic assessment of fat mass in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 73, 2013, Pages

  Pino, Elizabeth C ^a   Webster, Christopher M ^b   Carr, Christopher E ^a   Soukas, Alexander A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Animal model; Biochemistry; C. elegans; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cellular Biology; Developmental Biology; Energy metabolism; Fat; Fluorescent lipid staining; Gas chromatography; GC MS; Genetics; High throughput screening; Issue 73; Lipid metabolism; Lipids; Mass spectrometry; Molecular Biology; Nile red; Obesity; Physiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875890931     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50180     Document Type: Article

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