A protocol is described that uses anoxia/starvation in C. elegans to model ischemia/reperfusion. Functional outcomes include increased mortality, visible abnormalities in GFP-labeled neuronal processes, and impaired behavioral responses that require neuronal function.
Queliconi, B. B., Kowaltowski, A. J., Nehrke, K. An Anoxia-starvation Model for Ischemia/Reperfusion in C. elegans. J. Vis. Exp. (85), e51231, doi:10.3791/51231 (2014).