Method for measuring motion ability of fruit flies

Abstract

The invention relates to an animal motion measurement method, in particular to a method for measuring motion ability of fruit flies. The technical scheme of the invention comprises the following steps that: (1) the fruit flies are put in a container; (2) the container in which the fruit flies are put does up-and-down movement according to a certain frequency, so that the container is lifted to a certain height, and then, the container does downward movement of a freely-falling body; (3) the container is marked with height scales; and (4) the container does the up-and-down movement with a certain frequency, then after some time, the number of the fruit flies at different height stages is recorded. By adopting the method of the invention, the fruit flies can move according to own inverse gravity climbing characteristic through the up-and-to movement, the movement time and the frequency are controllable, the operation is simple, the observation is intuitive, and a molecular mechanism related to aging can be researched fast and conveniently at a large scale.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for establishing an animal anti-aging exercise model, in particular to a method for measuring the exercise ability of fruit flies. Background technique [0002] Out of concern for the aging of human beings, the study of aging has become a hot field of life science research. As an effective anti-aging approach, the study of exercise anti-aging and its mechanism of action has a very attractive prospect. Because many experimental conditions and exercise effects are not suitable for direct implementation on the human body, researchers often need to use some experimental animals to explore the mechanism of exercise and aging by constructing animal anti-aging models. Among them, rodents (rats and mice), which are close to human relatives, have become the most commonly used experimental subjects in sports training. However, with the continuous development of molecular biology and the deepening of the field of aging research...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] In order to better observe the movement of fruit flies, the anti-gravity climbing movement of fruit flies is systematically used to study the anti-aging theory of human beings, which overcomes the difficulty in achieving uniformity in the force of fruit flies falling to the bottom of the container in the prior art, and the lack of standardization. The reproducibility of the research results is not high, providing a new method for measuring the movement ability of fruit flies, which is specially used to study the movement of fruit flies by using the anti-gravity climbing characteristics of fruit flies, and provide reference for human anti-aging research

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