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Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death

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Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death. / Galimov, Evgeniy R; Pryor, Rosina E; Poole, Sarah E et al.
In: Cell Reports, Vol. 22, No. 10, 06.03.2018, p. 2730-2741.

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Galimov, ER, Pryor, RE, Poole, SE, Benedetto, A, Pincus, Z & Gems, D 2018, 'Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death', Cell Reports, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 2730-2741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.050

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Galimov, E. R., Pryor, R. E., Poole, S. E., Benedetto, A., Pincus, Z., & Gems, D. (2018). Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death. Cell Reports, 22(10), 2730-2741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.050

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Galimov ER, Pryor RE, Poole SE, Benedetto A, Pincus Z, Gems D. Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death. Cell Reports. 2018 Mar 6;22(10):2730-2741. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.050

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Galimov, Evgeniy R ; Pryor, Rosina E ; Poole, Sarah E et al. / Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death. In: Cell Reports. 2018 ; Vol. 22, No. 10. pp. 2730-2741.

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title = "Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death",
abstract = "Organismal death is a process of systemic collapse whose mechanisms are less well understood than those of cell death. We previously reported that death in C. elegans is accompanied by a calcium-propagated wave of intestinal necrosis, marked by a wave of blue autofluorescence (death fluorescence). Here, we describe another feature of organismal death, a wave of body wall muscle contraction, or death contraction (DC). This phenomenon is accompanied by a wave of intramuscular Ca2+release and, subsequently, of intestinal necrosis. Correlation of directions of the DC and intestinal necrosis waves implies coupling of these death processes. Long-lived insulin/IGF-1-signaling mutants show reduced DC and delayed intestinal necrosis, suggesting possible resistance to organismal death. DC resembles mammalian rigor mortis, a postmortem necrosis-related process in which Ca2+influx promotes muscle hyper-contraction. In contrast to mammals, DC is an early rather than a late event in C. elegans organismal death. VIDEO ABSTRACT.",
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T1 - Coupling of Rigor Mortis and Intestinal Necrosis during C. elegans Organismal Death

AU - Galimov, Evgeniy R

AU - Pryor, Rosina E

AU - Poole, Sarah E

AU - Benedetto, Alexandre

AU - Pincus, Zachary

AU - Gems, David

N1 - Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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N2 - Organismal death is a process of systemic collapse whose mechanisms are less well understood than those of cell death. We previously reported that death in C. elegans is accompanied by a calcium-propagated wave of intestinal necrosis, marked by a wave of blue autofluorescence (death fluorescence). Here, we describe another feature of organismal death, a wave of body wall muscle contraction, or death contraction (DC). This phenomenon is accompanied by a wave of intramuscular Ca2+release and, subsequently, of intestinal necrosis. Correlation of directions of the DC and intestinal necrosis waves implies coupling of these death processes. Long-lived insulin/IGF-1-signaling mutants show reduced DC and delayed intestinal necrosis, suggesting possible resistance to organismal death. DC resembles mammalian rigor mortis, a postmortem necrosis-related process in which Ca2+influx promotes muscle hyper-contraction. In contrast to mammals, DC is an early rather than a late event in C. elegans organismal death. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

AB - Organismal death is a process of systemic collapse whose mechanisms are less well understood than those of cell death. We previously reported that death in C. elegans is accompanied by a calcium-propagated wave of intestinal necrosis, marked by a wave of blue autofluorescence (death fluorescence). Here, we describe another feature of organismal death, a wave of body wall muscle contraction, or death contraction (DC). This phenomenon is accompanied by a wave of intramuscular Ca2+release and, subsequently, of intestinal necrosis. Correlation of directions of the DC and intestinal necrosis waves implies coupling of these death processes. Long-lived insulin/IGF-1-signaling mutants show reduced DC and delayed intestinal necrosis, suggesting possible resistance to organismal death. DC resembles mammalian rigor mortis, a postmortem necrosis-related process in which Ca2+influx promotes muscle hyper-contraction. In contrast to mammals, DC is an early rather than a late event in C. elegans organismal death. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

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KW - calcium

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KW - muscle

KW - necrosis

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KW - pathology

KW - rigor mortis

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