This corresponds to a mean life span of 10.5 days.
Control animals had a mean life span of 9.54 days.
In contrast, formula HLXL (100 µg/ml) did not extend mean life span significantly (mean life span 20.7 days, p = 0.1364, total worms 139, Table 4).
indicated that maximum life span was not, on average, a constant multiple of mean life span.
Mean life span ranged between 8.97 and 10.37 days in NP-exposed C. elegans.
Maximum life span, mean life span, and their ratio were log transformed.
Small rodents in captivity routinely reach ten times their mean life span in the wild.
Their mean life span under normoxic conditions was 10.5±0.4 days (n = 196), 2.6 times longer than the mean life span of starving flies (4.1±0.1 days, n = 280).
In C. elegans fed with SQDB (100 µg/ml in food), mean life span of the worms was significantly prolonged by 11.7% (mean life span 22.3 days, n = 3 independent experiments, total 555 worms, p = 0.0004, Table 3).
The mean life span of control animals was 21.5±1 d while mecr-1 RNAi) mecr-1 RNAied on animals 34% livedr (mean life span 29±3, n = fonr independent experiments).
In comparison the mean life span of flies maintained on a 10S5Y diet was 78.6 days [15].
