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.
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).