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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 705-714Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.93
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Studies of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans have provided important insights into the genetics of programmed cell death (PCD), and revealed molecular mechanisms conserved from nematodes to humans. The organism continues to offer opportunities to investigate the processes of apoptosis under very well-defined conditions and at single-cell resolution in living animals. Here, a survey of the common methods used to study the process of PCD in C. elegans is described. Detailed instructions are provided for one standard method-the counting of extra cells of the anterior pharynx-a quantitative technique that can be used to detect even very subtle alterations in the progression of apoptotic cell death.
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