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Galina Prokopchuk1,2, Daria Tashyreva3, Orsola Iorillo1,2

  • 1Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|February 2, 2026
PubMed

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Cell fixationCell permeabilizationEndocytosis assayFluorescence in situ hybridizationFluorescence microscopyFluorescence stainingImmunofluorescence assayLive-cell imaging

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