Progress in the mechanisms of response to different oxygen concentrations in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Author:
Ping HE
1
;
Na KANG
1
;
Ping-Ping LOU
1
;
Hai-Jun TU
1
Author Information
1. Institute of Neuroscience, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Caenorhabditis elegans;
Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins;
Humans;
Hypoxia;
Oxygen
- From:
Acta Physiologica Sinica
2020;72(3):407-417
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Oxygen levels are unequal in different living geographical locations of human and related to normal physiology of health. The reduction of oxygen level in the body can lead to a variety of diseases, such as stroke caused by cerebral ischemia and hypoxia. In the recent years, many studies have elucidated the molecular and cellular mechanisms of organism response to different oxygen concentrations by using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as model organism. C. elegans can escape hypoxia or hyperoxia and adapt to the ambient oxygen environments, and there are different response and regulation mechanisms in different degrees of hypoxia environment. In this paper, recent advances in the reaction of nematodes to different oxygen concentrations and the underlying mechanism were reviewed.
