Brain Banking: Making the Most of your Research Specimens

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Brain Banking: Making the Most of your Research Specimens

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10.3791/1260-v

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08:12 min

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July 24, 2009

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Mark W. Burke, Shahin Zangenehpour, Maurice Ptito

¹Department of Physiology,University of Montreal, ²School of Optometry,University of Montreal

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00:05Title
00:58Introduction
01:52Planning the Brain Bank: Systematic Sampling
04:18Sectioning your Tissue with the Cryostat Microtome
07:00Representative Results
07:35Conclusion

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Brain banking and systematic sampling of biological material provides the basis for unbiased stereology and maximizes the potential data obtained from each specimen.

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