Abstract
A number of practical advantages have made the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans a useful model for genetic and developmental biological research. These same advantages, along with conservation of disease and stress response pathways, availability of mutant and transgenic strains, and wealth of biological information, have led to the increased use of C. elegans in toxicological studies. Although the potential to study the mechanisms of developmental toxicology in C. elegans is promising, embryonic and larval growth tests to identify compounds that affect the nematode have remained the primary use of C. elegans in developmental toxicology. Here, we describe a C. elegans larval growth and development assay for medium- and high-throughput screening using the COPAS Biosort flow cytometer and provide descriptions of the data and subsequent analysis.
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The authors would like to thank Julie R. Rice, Daniel W. Snyder, and Paul E. Dunlap for technical assistance during the development and performance of C. elegans growth assays. We also thank Sandra J. McBride and Grace E. Kissling for assistance in the development of statistical analyses and mathematical modeling tools. This work was supported in part by the National Toxicology Program and by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (Z01ES102046).
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Boyd, W.A., Smith, M.V., Freedman, J.H. (2012). Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model in Developmental Toxicology. In: Harris, C., Hansen, J. (eds) Developmental Toxicology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 889. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-867-2_3
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