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ArticleGeroScience2024

Rapid measurement of ageing by automated monitoring of movement of C. elegans populations.

Giulia Zavagno, Adelaide Raimundo, Andy Kirby, Christopher Saunter, David Weinkove

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Article in GeroScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giulia ZavagnoDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2582-7760
Adelaide RaimundoMagnitude Biosciences Limited, NETPark Plexus, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, Durham, TS21 3FD, UK.
Andy KirbyMagnitude Biosciences Limited, NETPark Plexus, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, Durham, TS21 3FD, UK.
Christopher SaunterMagnitude Biosciences Limited, NETPark Plexus, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, Durham, TS21 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1407-5455
David WeinkoveDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. david.weinkove@durham.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7399-1202
Durham University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N021649/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finding new interventions that slow ageing and maintain human health is a huge challenge of our time. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans offers a rapid in vivo method to determine whether a compound extends its 2 to 3-week lifespan. Measuring lifespan is the standard method to monitor ageing, but a compound that extends lifespan will not necessarily maintain health. Here, we describe the automated monitoring of C. elegans movement from early to mid-adulthood as a faster healthspan-based method to measure ageing. Using the WormGazer™ technology, multiple Petri dishes each containing several C. elegans worms are imaged simultaneously and non-invasively by an array of cameras that can be scaled easily. This approach demonstrates that most functional decline in C. elegans occurs during the first week of adulthood. We find 7 days of imaging is sufficient to measure the dose-dependent efficacy of sulfamethoxazole to slow ageing, compared to 40 days required for a parallel lifespan experiment. Understanding any negative consequences of interventions that slow ageing is important. We show that the long-lived mutant age-1(hx546) stays active for longer than the wild type but it moves slower in early adulthood. Thus, continuous analysis of movement can rapidly identify interventions that slow ageing while simultaneously revealing any negative effects on health.

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AgingCaenorhabditis elegansAnimalsLongevityAgeingAutomationC. elegansHealthspanLifespanMetrics

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PMID37940787
PMCPMC10828257
OpenAlexW4388501691

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