Articles by Julián Cerón in JoVE

Basic Caenorhabditis elegans Methods: Synchronization and Observation

JoVE 4019 6/10/2012

Montserrat Porta-de-la-Riva^1,2, Laura Fontrodona¹, Alberto Villanueva^1,2, Julián Cerón^1,2

¹Department of Cancer and Human Molecular Genetics, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, ²C. elegans Core Facility, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research

The easiness of maintaining and propagating the nematode C. elegans make it a nice model organism to work with. The possibility of synchronizing worms allows the work with a significant amount of subjects at the same developmental stage, what facilitates the study of one particular process in many animals.