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Isolation and Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles from Adult Schistosoma japonicum
Published on: May 22, 2018
[Preparation of agar-paraffin double-embedded longitudinal sections of Schistosoma japonicum]
Ke-Geng Wang1, Qing-Ren Zeng, Yu-Kuai Zhang
1Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
Abstract:
Schistosoma japonicum adults are pre-embedded in a double-layer agar and made the block, then dehydrated with alcohol, isobutyl alcohol and n-butyl alcohol. Various staining procedures can be conducted after conventional sectioning and dewaxing. Complete longitudinal serial sections of the pre-embedded worms can be obtained, and the desired sections can be easily located accurately.

