{"term":{"id":"11658","title":"<i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i>","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - <i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i>","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11658","code":"11658","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Nematode with a well defined small neural network and homologues of human neurotransmitters, used as a model organism for studying normal development as well as neurotoxicity.","notes":{"1":"Neurotoxic endpoints studied in Caenorhabditis elegans include locomotion, reaction to touch and temperature-sensitivity."},"links":[{"term":"neural network","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11919"},{"term":"neurotoxicity","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11948"},{"term":"neurotransmitters","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11955"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 854 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11658\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11658\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11658\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: '<i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i>' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11658","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-23T18:12:06+00:00"}}