Researchers have identified that species in the gut microbiome can produce sphingolipids that protect the host from pathogens ...

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

A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. Science | These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes ...

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 ...

Many organisms react to the smell of deadly pathogens by reflexively avoiding them. But a recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that the nematode C. elegans also reacts to ...

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.

In C. elegans, the loss of SEIP-1 function reduces the size of a subset of LDs in intestinal cells and perturbs eggshell formation and embryonic development (Cao et al., 2019; Bai et al., 2020). Thus ...

The C. elegans transcription factor (TF) list was obtained from a previous report ... (2005) Oscillatory Ca2+ signaling in the isolated Caenorhabditis elegans intestine: role of the ...

In contrast, very little is known about how N. parisii invades C. elegans intestinal cells. Almost all the microsporidia proteins known to facilitate invasion of host cells are not conserved in N.

This study establishes that E. faecalis infection in C. elegans leads to anterior intestinal distention which results in a rapid pathogen avoidance behavior, opposed by NPR-1-mediated hyperoxia ...