The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

More information: Yeon-Ji Park et al, PIEZO acts in an intestinal valve to regulate swallowing in C. elegans, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54362-3 Provided by Daegu ...

Cell Reports – Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death. Highlights •A wave of body wall muscle contraction occurs during C. elegans organismal death •This ...

An intestine-specific ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) screen of genes encoding small peptides was performed to identify changes in FLP-7 secretion from ASI neurons (FLP-7 ASI) in C. elegans ...

With C. elegans as the animal model, lead author Misty Riddle, a Ph.D. student in the Rothman Lab, used transcription factor ELT-7 to change the roundworm's pharynx cells into intestine cells in a ...

C. elegans has been used as a model organism to study human diseases ranging from Parkinson’s disease to mitochondrial diseases, ... an intestinal layer, and a muscle layer.

Once C. elegans larvae have hatched, ... A microRNA program in theC. eleganshypodermis couples to intestinal mTORC2/PQM-1 signaling to modulate fat transport. Genes & Development, 2016; 30 ...

Using C. elegans, a common microscopic worm that lives in dirt, Hamza and his team have identified a protein, called HRG-3 that transports heme from the mother's intestine to her developing embryos.

So while the results showed that colonization of the C. elegans intestine with pathogenic gram-negative bacteria effectively disrupted proteostasis in the intestine, muscle, neurons, and gonads ...