WormFarm: A quantitative control and measurement device toward automated Caenorhabditis elegans aging analysis

Aging Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 398-409

  Xian, Bo ^a,c   Shen, Jie ^b   Chen, Weiyang ^a   Sun, Na ^a,c   Qiao, Nan ^a,c   Jiang, Dongqing ^b   Yu, Tao ^a   Men, Yongfan ^b   Han, Zhijun ^a   Pang, Yuhong ^b   Kaeberlein, Matt ^d   Huang, Yanyi ^b   Han, Jing Dong J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Automatic; C. elegans; Microfluidics; Phenotype; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIFESPAN; MEASUREMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURVIVAL; WORMFARM;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; LONGEVITY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 84877804010     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12063     Document Type: Article

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