A novel assay for drug screening that utilizes the heat shock response of Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes

• Chih-Hsiung Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Hsiung Chen, Rahul Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• Rahul Patel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Hsiung Chen, Rahul Patel

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Alessandro Bortolami,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• Federico Sesti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: federico.sesti@rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2761-9693

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