Dissection of Rodent Brain Regions

Dissection of brain tissue is an important step in sample preparation for (subcellular) proteomics studies. In this chapter, brain removal and separate dissection of multiple brain regions from a single brain are described in step-by-step protocol. This concerns dissection from fresh or frozen tissue of cerebellum, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and striatum.

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