Measuring Food Intake and Nutrient Absorption in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Gomez-Amaro RL, Valentine ER, Carretero M, LeBoeuf SE, Rangaraju S, Broaddus CD, Solis GM, Williamson JR, Petrascheck M.
Gomez-Amaro RL, et al. Among authors: williamson jr.
Genetics. 2015 Jun;200(2):443-54. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.175851. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
Genetics. 2015.
PMID: 25903497
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The first method is a microtiter plate-based bacterial clearing assay that measures food intake by quantifying the change in the optical density of bacteria over time. The second method, termed pulse feeding, measures the absorption of food by tracking de novo protein synt …
The first method is a microtiter plate-based bacterial clearing assay that measures food intake by quantifying the change in the opti …