AN ALTERNATIVE ORGANISM IN TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCHES: Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)

In recent years, toxic and potentially toxic substances have increased. These toxic substances affect the human health and environment in a negative way. It has been used many model organisms to show the negative effects. Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is one of the most important model organisms used for the toxicity studies. This organism has lots of intended purposes. When compared to the other organisms, it has some advantages and disadvantages on the use of toxicology studies. One of the most important advantages is that thanks to the automatic high-scale scans, it can be performed to scan for toxicity of hundreds or even thousands of substances at the same time. In this compilation, informations have been provided about C. elegans and its use in toxicity studies