High-throughput screening using freshwater planarians

InveriTek provides chemical whole-organism screening via behavioral phenotyping in freshwater planarians. This aquatic invertebrate system readily absorbs chemicals from its environment and uniquely allows for the distinction of effects on the adult versus the developing nervous system.

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Applications:

  • systemic toxicity

  • neurotoxicity and developmental neurotoxicity

  • ecotoxicity