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A Comparative Study of Fat Storage Quantitation in Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Using Label and Label-Free Methods

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been employed as a model organism to study human obesity due to the conservation of the pathways that regulate energy metabolism. To assay for fat storage in C. elegans, a number of fat-soluble dyes have been employed including BODIPY, Nile Red, Oil Red O, and...

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Autores principales: Yen, Kelvin, Le, Thuc T., Bansal, Ankita, Narasimhan, Sri Devi, Cheng, Ji-Xin, Tissenbaum, Heidi A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20862331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012810