Journal article
An old worm with new tricks? The applications for Lumbriculus variegatus as an invertebrate model for education
Aidan Seeley 
Current Opinion in Physiology, Start page: 100928
Swansea University Author:
Aidan Seeley
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.cophys.2026.100928
Abstract
Lumbriculus variegatus is an aquatic worm which has gained recent renewed interest as a practical model for biomedical education, enabling in vivo behavioural, physiological, toxicological, and biochemical responses to biologically active compounds to be assessed in educational settings. As inverteb...
| Published in: | Current Opinion in Physiology |
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| ISSN: | 2468-8673 |
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Elsevier BV
2026
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71494 |
| Abstract: |
Lumbriculus variegatus is an aquatic worm which has gained recent renewed interest as a practical model for biomedical education, enabling in vivo behavioural, physiological, toxicological, and biochemical responses to biologically active compounds to be assessed in educational settings. As invertebrates, L. variegatus offers easy integration into educational settings without regulatory constraints, and this positions L. variegatus as a valuable tool for practical in vivo learning. This review provides an overview of methodologies utilised within studies of L. variegatus, including toxicity, locomotive behavioural assays, measurement of dorsal blood vessel pulsation, metabolic profiling, and molecular endpoints, and describes their current and potential applications within educational settings. |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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100928 |