Caenorhabditis elegans: A Useful Model for Studying Metabolic Disorders in Which Oxidative Stress Is a Contributing Factor

Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful model organism that is invaluable for experimental research because it can be used to recapitulate most human diseases at either the metabolic or genomic level in vivo. This organism contains many key components related to metabolic and oxidative stress networks...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Moreno-Arriola, Noemí Cárdenas-Rodríguez, Elvia Coballase-Urrutia, José Pedraza-Chaverri, Liliana Carmona-Aparicio, Daniel Ortega-Cuellar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/705253