Brain Slice Injury
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Inducing Traumatic Injury in a Brain Slice Using a Shock Tube Device
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2025
In this video, a shock tube device is used to generate a shockwave by rupturing a polymer diaphragm through controlled pressurization. The shockwave impacts brain slices contained in a secured bag, inducing traumatic injury to the brain slice.
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TTC Staining of Rat Brain Tissue Slices: A Staining Procedure to Differentiate Viable and Necrotic Tissue in Tissue Slices After Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
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2025
This video describes the 2,3,5-triphenyl-2H-tetrazolium chloride staining procedure to visualize rat brain tissue slices and differentiate viable and damaged tissue following middle cerebral artery occlusion and reperfusion.
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A Mouse Model of Single and Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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2017
Athletes absorb several hundred mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI)/concussions every year; however, the consequence of these on the brain is poorly understood. Therefore, an animal model of single and repetitive mTBI that consistently replicates clinically relevant symptoms provides the means to advance the study of mTBI and concussion.
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The Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Culture Model for Examining Neuronal Injury
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Cited by 9 •
2010
The organoptypic hippocampal slice culture model is an in vitro model used to examine neuronal injury in a variety of paradigms. In this article, we describe the methods for generating slice cultures and quantifying neuronal injury.
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Ex Vivo Optogenetic Dissection of Fear Circuits in Brain Slices
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2016
Optogenetic approaches are widely used to manipulate neural activity and assess the consequences for brain function. Here, a technique is outlined that upon in vivo expression of the optical activator Channelrhodopsin, allows for ex vivo analysis of synaptic properties of specific long range and local neural connections in fear-related circuits.
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The cutting step produces localized damage concentrated near the exposed slice surface. Cells in this region experience membrane injury, while disrupted neural circuits alter the tissue environment. These changes initiate inflammatory activity and tissue repair processes, allowing researchers to examine how damaged neural tissue responds under controlled ex vivo conditions rather than treating injury as a single, uniform event.
Researchers can assess responses from both neurons and glial cells, the non-neuronal cells that support and regulate neural tissue. The model makes it possible to connect membrane damage and inflammation with broader tissue responses, including repair-related changes. Examining these cell types together helps clarify how different components of brain tissue participate in injury and recovery.
Localized damage creates a defined region in which injury-related changes can be examined in relation to less directly affected tissue within the same slice. This arrangement supports mechanistic analysis of cellular and molecular responses, including inflammation and repair. It also helps researchers investigate how disruption of nearby neural circuits contributes to the tissue response after cutting.
The ex vivo format reduces the biological complexity of a whole-animal experiment while preserving damaged brain tissue for laboratory analysis. Researchers gain greater control over the injury context and can focus on cellular and molecular mechanisms in the slice. This makes the model useful for isolating responses to trauma before considering findings in more complex experimental systems.
Thin sections of brain tissue are prepared with either a blade or a vibratome, and the cutting process itself produces the experimental injury. Preparation disrupts neural circuits and damages cells near the cut surface, creating a reproducible setting for examining subsequent responses. The resulting slices are studied under controlled laboratory conditions to follow injury-related cellular and molecular changes.
Researchers can use this model when they need to examine whether a potential neuroprotective treatment changes responses to localized tissue damage. Because the injury occurs in a controlled slice preparation, investigators can focus on effects involving neurons, glial cells, inflammation, or tissue repair. The approach supports early mechanistic testing before the complexity of a whole-animal experiment is introduced.
Brain slice injury supports investigations into neurodegeneration, recovery, and therapeutic development. Researchers can ask how damaged tissue changes at cellular and molecular levels, how neuronal and glial responses contribute to repair, and whether candidate interventions limit harmful effects. Its experimental accessibility also makes it useful for connecting injury mechanisms with broader questions about neural tissue responses.