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C. Elegan Research Paper

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Introduction
C.Elegans are roundworms or threadworms that are 1mm in length and found living within soil around many parts of the world, these C. Elegans thrive on rotting vegetation where it can survive, feeding on microbes such as bacteria, these C. Elegans are non-infectious, non-pathogenic and non-hazardous. They are of a long cylindrical shape that looks rather tapered at each end. These worms are found in both aquatic and terrestrial free living environment’s.
C.Elegans also known as Caenorhabditis Elegans are a nematode which is a member of a phylum nematode family. Majority of these nematodes are males the rest are known as hermaphrodites, which are a species of having both sexes to be able to keep up the reproduction at a good balance. …show more content…

The complex nematode was then used due to it being more amenable to genetic analysis and the simple nervous system it has.
All over the world there are many scientists that are working full time in the study of these C. Elegans and have created scientific articles about the C. Elegans and their lifespan. They have been found to show many of the same essential biological characteristics that have the similar problems found in human biology and by using these C. Elegans it would make it easier to treat patients that have age associated neurogenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s …show more content…

Elegans mutations are found to be well maintained within the ISS Insulin/IGF-1 pathway that can have a lead on a longer lifespan extension and this can help with age related diseases along with the improvement of health in later life, This is very important in the understanding of these age related neurodegenerative diseases because it will help with understanding of how people/patients could then go on to being helped with these diseases as well as along with tumour formations patients, These functions are looked at closely by the FoxO transcription factor known as DAF-16 using microarrays, bioinformatics predictions as well as SAGE ( serial analysis of gene expression) and DAF-16 is located downstream from the ISS Kinase cascade. Looking at how the DAF-16 target gene along with testing its functions has been a long process of over 10 years in the ageing

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