A practical protocol to prepare paraffin-embedded whole tick histology sections.

ABSTRACT: Ticks are important ectoparasites that are capable of transmitting multiple classes of pathogens and are currently linked with many emerging tick-borne diseases worldwide. With increasing occurrences of tick-borne diseases in both humans and veterinary species, there is a continuous need to further our understanding of ticks and the pathogens they transmit. Whole tick histology provides a full scope of the tick internal anatomy, allowing researchers to examine multiple organs of interest in a single section. This is in contrast to other techniques that are more commonly utilized in tick-borne disease research, such as electron microscopy and light microscopy of individual organs. There is a lack of literature describing a practical technique to process whole tick histologic sections. There

SUBMITTER: Yang TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10652274 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature