A novel assay for drug screening that utilizes the heat shock response of Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes.

Biological organisms respond to environmental stressors by recruiting multiple cellular cascades that act to mitigate damage and ultimately enhance survival. This implies that compounds that interact with any of those pathways might improve organism's survival. Here, we report on an initial att...

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Main Authors: Chih-Hsiung Chen, Rahul Patel, Alessandro Bortolami, Federico Sesti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240255