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An old worm with new tricks? The applications for Lumbriculus variegatus as an invertebrate model for education

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Current Opinion in Physiology, Volume: 48, Start page: 100928

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.cophys.2026.100928

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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...

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