A Simple Method for High Throughput Chemical Screening in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Autor: Lucanic, Mark, Garrett, Theo, Gill, Matthew S., Lithgow, Gordon J.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE
ISSN: 1940-087X
Popis: Caenorhabditis elegans is a useful organism for testing chemical effects on physiology. Whole organism small molecule screens offer significant advantages for identifying biologically active chemical structures that can modify complex phenotypes such as lifespan. Described here is a simple protocol for producing hundreds of 96-well culture plates with fairly consistent numbers of C. elegans in each well. Next, we specified how to use these cultures to screen thousands of chemicals for effects on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans. This protocol makes use of temperature sensitive sterile strains, agar plate conditions, and simple animal handling to facilitate the rapid and high throughput production of synchronized animal cultures for screening.
Databáze: OpenAIRE