Minimally invasive method for murine brain fixation

BioTechniques

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-490

  Eichenbaum, Kenneth D ^a,c   Eichenbaum, Joseph W ^a,b   Fadiel, Ahmed ^c   Miller, Douglas C ^a   Demir, Necdet ^c,d   Naftolin, Frederick ^c   Stern, Arnold ^a   Pevsner, Paul H ^a,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

BRAIN FIXATION; NUCLEAR STRUCTURE; TRANSTHORACIC CARDIAC INFUSION; VENTRICULAR DILATION;

NEUROLOGY;

FIXATIVE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART PERFUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFUSION SYSTEM; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; THORACOTOMY; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOPLASM; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTOMY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PRESERVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYTOPLASM; FIXATIVES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTOMY; NEURONS; PERFUSION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 32944460305     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112003     Document Type: Article

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