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Cerebellum Dissection and Slice Preparation: A Method to Generate Tissue Slices from Mouse Cerebellum
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2025
This video describes a method to generate tissue slices from the mouse cerebellum. The cerebellar slices can be used for organotypic culturing that provides insights into neurodevelopmental mechanisms, including myelination dynamics.
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Imaging Pheromone Sensing in a Mouse Vomeronasal Acute Tissue Slice Preparation
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Cited by 15 •
2011
In mice, the ability to detect pheromones is principally mediated by the vomeronasal organ (VNO). Here, an acute tissue slice preparation of VNO for performing calcium imaging is described. This physiological approach allows observations of subpopulations and/or individual neurons in a living tissue and is convenient for receptor-ligand identification.
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Generation of Porcine Ventricular Slices: A Vibratome-based Technique to Prepare Ultra-thin Slices of Pig Heart Tissue
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2025
This video demonstrates a vibratome-based procedure to generate viable, ultra-thin sections of pig heart. The prepared tissue slices can be cultured and used as model systems for pharmacological testing.
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Thin Sectioning of Slice Preparations for Immunohistochemistry
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Cited by 7 •
2007
The present method allows reproducible cryostat sectioning of small, difficult-to-manage, tissue pieces, such as biopsies and brain slices. We utilize a simple aluminum freezing stage to facilitate handling of tissue and a standard cryostat to routinely produce 5-10 micron serial sections from 400 micron thick brain slices.
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Engineered Lung Tissues Prepared from Decellularized Lung Slices
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2022
This protocol describes a method to generate reproducible, small-scale engineered lung tissues, by repopulating decellularized precision-cut lung slices with alveolar epithelial type 2 cells, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells.
FAQs
Fixation preserves cellular structure while the sample is processed into sections. This matters because cutting and subsequent handling could otherwise compromise the spatial details needed for microscopic examination. By stabilizing the tissue before embedding and sectioning, researchers improve the likelihood that cellular organization remains interpretable in studies comparing normal and diseased tissue.
Embedding media provide support around tissue during cutting, helping the sample retain a form that can yield thin, uniform sections. Paraffin is one option, while another supporting medium may be selected according to the tissue and study. This choice therefore connects sample handling with the quality and interpretability of later microscopic examination.
The choice between a microtome and cryostat is determined by the tissue and the study rather than by a single universal rule. Both are sectioning instruments, but the appropriate option depends on which approach best suits the sample and experimental purpose. Researchers should therefore define those requirements before cutting begins.
Staining adds interpretive information after sectioning by making particular cells or structures visible. When the experiment targets molecular markers, immunostaining can identify those markers within the preserved tissue context. This allows a slice to support more than general morphology, linking visible organization with specific cellular or molecular features relevant to the biological question.
A practical workflow starts by fixing the sample when preservation of cellular structure is needed. The tissue is then embedded in paraffin or another supporting medium, cut with a microtome or cryostat, and stained if selective visualization is required. Keeping these stages aligned with the tissue and study helps produce sections suitable for imaging and analysis.
Applications span histology, pathology, immunostaining, and other imaging-based investigations. The resulting sections let researchers examine tissue organization while retaining spatial relationships within complex tissues. They can also support comparisons between healthy and diseased states or evaluations of developmental and physiological changes, making preparation useful across structural and condition-focused biology studies.