Tools and methods for cell ablation and cell inhibition in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics
; 2024 Aug 07.
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ABSTRACT
To understand the function of cells such as neurons within an organism, it can be instrumental to inhibit cellular function, or to remove the cell (type) from the organism, and thus to observe the consequences on organismic and/or circuit function and animal behavior. A range of approaches and tools were developed and used over the past few decades that act either constitutively or acutely and reversibly, in systemic or local fashion. These approaches make use of either drugs or genetically encoded tools. Also, there are acutely acting inhibitory tools that require an exogenous trigger like light. Here, we give an overview of such methods developed and used in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Genetics
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Alemania