Fig 7.

Effect of EC on the expression of daf-16, hsf-1 and skn-1 genes in wild-type C. elegans cultivated in the absence (controls) and presence of EC (200 μM) in the culture media grown under non-stressed conditions (A) or after subjecting them to thermal stress (B). The expression level was determined by RT-qPCR; act-1 was used as an internal control. Nine independent experiments were performed. The results are presented as the mean values ± SEM. Statistical significance was calculated using by one-way analysis of variance ANOVA The differences were considered significant at (*p<0.05).