Animal Husbandry and Feed Science ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 25-25.doi: 10.12160/j.issn.1672-5190.2012.05.012

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Effect of EGCG on the Life of Drosophila melanogaster

CHEN Fen-fen, ZHOU Jie-long, ZHANG Rui, XIE Zheng-hua (College of Life Science, Southwest Forest University, Kunming 650224, China)   

  • Online:2012-05-20 Published:2012-05-20

Abstract: Wild-type Drosophila melanogaster was cultured with different concentrations of EGCG (20, 40 and 80 μL/L) of medium for the survival experiments. The numbers of survival and death of Drosophila melanogaster were recorded, and the median death time, the maximum life span and average life were calculated. Results showed that the median death time, the maximum life span and average life of male and female Drosophila melanogaster could be prolonged effectively with the increase of EGCG concentration, and 40 μL/L was the optimum concentration of EGCG to prolong the life-span of female Drosophila melanogaster.

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