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A Simple Protocol for Extracting Hemocytes from Wild Caterpillars

Article DOI: 10.3791/4173
November 15th, 2012 •
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1Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University

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November 15th, 2012

Insect hemocytes carry out many important functions, both immune and non-immune, throughout all stages of insect development. Our present knowledge of hemocyte types and function comes from studies on insect genetic models. Here, we present a method for extracting, quantifying and visualizing hemocytes from wild caterpillars.

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