Effects of Lycium barbarum Polysaccharides on Health and Aging of C. elegans Depend on daf-12/daf-16

Figure 3

In C. elegans, LBP lifespan extension effects are not inheritable and do not depend on a particular stage of development. (a) Survival of offspring of N2 produced on plates with 300 μg/ml LBP to standard NGM plates without LBP and the control. (b) The mean lifespan and maximum lifespan of F1 offspring of N2 produced on plates with 300 μg/ml LBP to standard NGM plates without LBP and the control. (c) Survival of the worms before or after L4 as they were fed or not with LBP. (d) The mean lifespan and maximum lifespan of the worms before or after L4 as they were fed or not with LBP. Not significant was abbreviated as N.S. N2 (NN): culture without LBP; N2 (YN): culture with 300 μg/ml LBP before the L4 stage but without LBP after the L4 stage; N2 (NY): culture without LBP before the L4 stage but with 300 μg/ml LBP after the L4 stage; N2 (YY): culture with 300 μg/ml.

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