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From: Evaluation of alpaca tracheal explants as an ex vivo model for the study of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection

Figure 2

Evaluation of alpaca tracheal explants (ATE) thickness after ex vivo culture by means of light photomicrographs. The trachea was harvested upon necropsy, followed by infection at different doses of MERS-CoV (right of the figure). ATE were collected at different time points and were fixed in 10% neutral-buffered formalin. Sections of each formalin-fixed paraffin embedded ATE were stained by hematoxylin-eosin to evaluate the thickness of the epithelium by measuring five randomly selected fields across each section (indicated with a black arrow at the left) at –24, 0, 24, 48 and 72 hpi, respectively.

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Veterinary Research

ISSN: 1297-9716