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SUBMITTER: Spensley M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6118317 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Spensley Mark M Del Borrello Samantha S Pajkic Djina D Fraser Andrew G AG
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20180830 9
Many drugs act very rapidly - they can turn on or off their targets within minutes in a whole animal. What are the acute effects of drug treatment and how does an animal respond to these? We developed a simple assay to measure the acute effects of drugs on <i>C. elegans</i> movement and examined the effects of a range of compounds including neuroactive drugs, toxins, environmental stresses and novel compounds on worm movement over a time period of 3 hr. We found a wide variety of acute responses ...[more]