This article describes in detail a protocol to electroporate in utero the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus at E14.5 in mice. We also show that this is a valuable method to study dendrites and spines in these two cerebral regions.
Pacary, E., Haas, M. A., Wildner, H., Azzarelli, R., Bell, D. M., Abrous, D. N., Guillemot, F. Visualization and Genetic Manipulation of Dendrites and Spines in the Mouse Cerebral Cortex and Hippocampus using In utero Electroporation. J. Vis. Exp. (65), e4163, doi:10.3791/4163 (2012).