{"title":"Brief guide to assays for measuring health parameters using Caenorhabditis elegans","authors":"Seungjae Hwang, Jongsun Lee, Seung-Jae V. Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.mocell.2025.100233","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing health parameters is essential for understanding the decline of physiological functions during aging. The nematode <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em> serves as a powerful model in aging research. This paper introduces representative methods for evaluating health parameters using <em>C. elegans</em> and provides quantitative indicators of functional declines during aging. This manuscript will be useful for researchers unfamiliar with healthspan studies using <em>C. elegans</em> and may help perform physiological experiments for healthy aging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18795,"journal":{"name":"Molecules and Cells","volume":"48 8","pages":"Article 100233"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Molecules and Cells","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1016847825000573","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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.
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Molecules and Cells is an international on-line open-access journal devoted to the advancement and dissemination of fundamental knowledge in molecular and cellular biology. It was launched in 1990 and ISO abbreviation is "Mol. Cells". Reports on a broad range of topics of general interest to molecular and cell biologists are published. It is published on the last day of each month by the Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology.