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Exposure of the Pig CNS for Histological Analysis: A Manual for Decapitation, Skull Opening, and Brain Removal

Exposure of the Pig CNS for Histological Analysis: A Manual for Decapitation, Skull Opening, and Brain Removal

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April 13, 2017

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10.3791/55511-v

DOI:
10.3791/55511-v

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08:38 min
April 13, 2017

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1Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Institute of Medicine,Aalborg University Hospital, 2Center of Experimental Neuroscience (Cense), Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine,Aarhus University Hospital

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The goal of this paper and instructional video is to describe how to expose and remove the postmortem pig brain and pituitary gland in an intact state, suitable for subsequent macroscopic and histological analysis.

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Bjarkam, C. R., Orlowski, D., Tvilling, L., Bech, J., Glud, A. N., Sørensen, J. H. Exposure of the Pig CNS for Histological Analysis: A Manual for Decapitation, Skull Opening, and Brain Removal. J. Vis. Exp. (122), e55511, doi:10.3791/55511 (2017).

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