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Blood Collection from the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus Polyphemus
Peter Armstrong 1,2, Mara Conrad 3
1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, 2Marine Biological Laboratory - MBL- woods hole, 3Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of CUNY

The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is arguably the most convenient source for large quantities of blood of any invertebrate. The blood is simple in composition, with only one cell-type in the general circulation, the granular amebocyte, and only three abundant proteins in the plasma, hemocyanin, the C-reactive proteins, and α2-macroglobulin. Blood is collected from the heart and the blood cells and plasma are separated by centrifugation.

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