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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 257060, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/257060
New Method to Disaggregate and Analyze Single Isolated Helminthes Cells Using Flow Cytometry: Proof of Concept
1Departamento de Infectología e Inmunología Perinatal, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, 11000 México DF, Mexico
2Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70228, 04510 México DF, Mexico
3Subdirección de Investigación Básica, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Secretaría de Salud (SSA), 47000 México DF, Mexico
Received 23 June 2011; Accepted 5 September 2011
Academic Editor: Luis I. Terrazas
Copyright © 2011 Karen Nava-Castro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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