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The C. elegans healthspan and stress-resistance assay toolkit.
Methods (San Diego, Calif.) - 1 Aug 2014
Keith Scott Alexander, Amrit Francis Raj Gandhi, Ratnappan Ramesh, Ghazi Arjumand
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A wealth of knowledge on the genetic mechanisms that govern aging has emerged from the study of mutants that exhibit enhanced longevity and exceptional resilience to adverse environmental conditions. In these studies, lifespan has been an excellent proxy for establishing the rate of aging, but it is not always correlated with qualitative measures of healthy aging or 'healthspan'. Although the attributes of...
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