Fat Body Organ Culture System in <em>Aedes Aegypti</em>, a Vector of Zika Virus

Hae-Na Chung; Stacy D. Rodriguez; Victoria K. Carpenter; Julia Vulcan; C. Donovan Bailey; Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao; Yiyi Li; Geoffrey M. Attardo; Immo A. Hansen

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Fat Body Organ Culture System in Aedes Aegypti, a Vector of Zika Virus

Fat Body Organ Culture System in <em>Aedes Aegypti</em>, a Vector of Zika Virus

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Fat Body Organ Culture System in Aedes Aegypti, a Vector of Zika Virus

Fat Body Organ Culture System in Aedes Aegypti, a Vector of Zika Virus

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August 19, 2017

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Hae-Na Chung¹, Stacy D. Rodriguez¹, Victoria K. Carpenter², Julia Vulcan¹, C. Donovan Bailey¹, Madhugiri Nageswara-Rao¹, Yiyi Li³, Geoffrey M. Attardo⁴, Immo A. Hansen^1,5

¹Department of Biology,New Mexico State University ²Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,Duke University ³Department of Computer Sciences,New Mexico State University ⁴Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases,Yale School of Public Health ⁵Institute of Applied Biosciences,New Mexico State University

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The fat body is the central metabolic organ in insects. We present a live organ culture system that enables the user to study the responses of isolated fat body tissue to various stimuli.

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