This paper describes a novel model of primary blast traumatic brain injury. A compressed-air driven shock tube is used to expose in vitro mouse hippocampal slice cultures to a single shock wave. This is a simple and rapid protocol generating a reproducible brain tissue injury with a high throughput.
Campos-Pires, R., Yonis, A., Macdonald, W., Harris, K., Edge, C. J., Mahoney, P. F., Dickinson, R. A Novel In Vitro Model of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury. J. Vis. Exp. (142), e58400, doi:10.3791/58400 (2018).