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SUBMITTER: Fouad AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5473760 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fouad Anthony D AD Pu Shelley H SH Teng Shelly S Mark Julian R JR Fu Moyu M Zhang Kevin K Huang Jonathan J Raizen David M DM Fang-Yen Christopher C
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20170607 6
The roundworm <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> is widely used as a model for studying conserved pathways for fat storage, aging, and metabolism. The most broadly used methods for imaging fat in <i>C. elegans</i> require fixing and staining the animal. Here, we show that dark field images acquired through an ordinary light microscope can be used to estimate fat levels in worms. We define a metric based on the amount of light scattered per area, and show that this light scattering metric is strongly ...[more]