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Chapters
- 00:04Title
- 00:48Lung Exsanguination
- 02:02Lung Tissue Fixation
- 03:38Results: Representative Mouse Lung Histologic and Morphometric Findings
- 04:58Conclusion
Presented here is a useful protocol for lung fixation that creates a stable condition for histological evaluate of lung specimens from a mouse model of emphysema. The main advantage of this model is that it can fix many lungs with the same constant pressure without lung collapse or deflation.
