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Blood Collection from the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus Polyphemus

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12:48 min

October 13th, 2008

DOI :

10.3791/958-v

October 13th, 2008


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Blood Collection

Chapters in this video

0:00

Introduction

1:34

Maintaining Horseshoe crabs for research

2:22

Basic Limulus Anatomy

3:58

Prepare Horseshoe crab for bleeding

5:25

Bleeding a Horseshoe crab

7:49

Plasma Preparation and Storage

9:46

Making explant cultures of aggregated ameobocytes

11:16

Conclusion

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