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Processing of tissue and blood must be done in a systematic and controlled fashion in order to optimize results and allow comparison of samples between experiments and between laboratories. Here we present our protocols for blood and tissue processing.
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Gray, B.M., Eaton, K.A. (2012). Necropsy, Blood, Tissue Collection, and mRNA Isolation for Detection of Host Cytokine Gene Expression. In: Houghton, J. (eds) Helicobacter Species. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 921. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-005-2_17
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