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Surveying Low-Cost Methods to Measure Lifespan and Healthspan in Caenorhabditis elegans
Published on: May 18, 2022
Brief guide to assays for measuring health parameters using Caenorhabditis elegans
Seungjae Hwang1, Jongsun Lee1, Seung-Jae V Lee1
1Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea.
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Assessing health parameters is essential for understanding the decline of physiological functions during aging. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans serves as a powerful model in aging research. This paper introduces representative methods for evaluating health parameters using C. elegans and provides quantitative indicators of functional declines during aging. This manuscript will be useful for researchers unfamiliar with healthspan studies using C. elegans and may help perform physiological experiments for healthy aging.

