Review
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DOI:
10.57034/2618723X-2024-01-07
T.B. Kalinnikova,
PhD in Biology, Leading researcher,
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8849-3425
Research Institute for Problems of Ecology and Mineral Wealth Use of TatarstanAcademy of Sciences,
420089, Russia, Kazan, Daurskaya str., 28.
E-mail: [email protected]
Keywords:
Caenorhabditis elegans
parasitic Nematoda
nematicides
Acknowledgements
The study was performed without external funding.
For citation:
Kalinnikova T.B. Soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to study parasitic Nematoda. Laboratory Animals for Science. 2024; 1. https://doi.org/10.57034/2618723X-2024-01-07
Abstract
The free-living soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as model organism in biological researches since middle of the 1960th. The short lifecycle, small body size, high fecundity, simplicity and cheapness of cultivation in laboratory, and safety for researchers are advantages of C. elegans as experimental model to study biology of Metazoa. The discussion about the possibility to use C. elegans as the model for parasitic nematodes started with the first mention of this nematode in scientific literature. The present article is the review of experimental studies demonstrating that in many cases substances toxic for C. elegans are also toxic for parasitic nematodes, and vice versa. This allows making a conclusion about the prospectivity to use C. elegans for initial screening for substances with nematicidal activity followed by their testing in experiments with parasitic nematodes. The possibility to use C. elegans for understanding mechanisms of nematicides action is also indisputable. On the whole one may conclude that C. elegans is a useful model both for searching new substances with anthelmintic activity and solution of the problem to overcome drug resistance of helmints.
Conflict of interest
The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Received:
2024-01-15
Reviewed:
2024-02-01
Accepted for publication:
2024-02-15