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Extraction and Tissue Clearing Preparation of Mouse Brain-Spinal Cord Samples
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2025
This study presents a protocol for extracting and preparing cleared whole-brain and spinal cord samples with preserved fluorescent signals, enhancing experimental efficiency and data integrity to advance neuroscience research.
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Isolating Mouse Brain Vessels: A Protocol to Isolate Intact Vessels from Murine Brain Sample
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2025
This video demonstrates the isolation of intact vessels from a mouse's brain that constitute the blood-brain barrier (BBB) along with neurons and glial cells. The isolated vessels can be used as an in vitro model to study their role in maintaining brain homeostasis.
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Detection of Phosphorylated Tau Proteins in Mouse Brain Samples Using Western Blot Analysis
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2025
Homogenize the tissue to release proteins into the buffer. The protease inhibitors block protease activity, preventing protein degradation.
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Comprehensive Analysis of Transcription Dynamics from Brain Samples Following Behavioral Experience
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2014
This manuscript describes a protocol that applies comprehensive profiling for analysis of transcriptional programs induced in specific brain nuclei of rodents following behavioral paradigms. Herein, this approach is illustrated in the context of profiling genes induced in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) of mice following acute cocaine exposure, utilizing microfluidic qPCR arrays.
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Free-floating Immunostaining of Mouse Brains
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Cited by 10 •
2021
This protocol describes an efficient and reproducible approach for mouse brain histological studies, including perfusion, brain sectioning, free-floating immunostaining, tissue mounting, and imaging.
FAQs
Fixation and freezing provide two preservation routes, but they support the same broader goal: keeping tissue suitable for later analysis. After collection, researchers select one of these approaches before sectioning, staining, imaging, or molecular testing. The choice therefore shapes which features can be examined and how the sample is handled.
Sectioning creates thin tissue portions that can be examined systematically, while staining helps make cellular or protein-related features visible. Imaging then documents spatial organization, and molecular analysis addresses gene expression or other molecular characteristics. Using these complementary stages allows investigators to connect anatomy with molecular patterns in the same biological context.
Its shared key biological features with the mammalian nervous system make it useful for relating observations in tissue to broader mechanisms of brain function and disease. A sample can therefore support interpretation at several levels, from cell organization and protein distribution to changes associated with an experimental condition.
A practical workflow begins with collecting the tissue, followed by preservation through fixation or freezing. The preserved material is then prepared for sectioning and may undergo staining, imaging, or molecular analysis. This sequence converts a collected specimen into observations about structure, protein distribution, gene expression, or experimental changes.
Researchers choose the downstream preparation according to the information they need. Imaging-based preparation is suited to examining organization and distribution within tissue, whereas molecular analysis can address gene expression and related molecular changes. Matching preparation to the intended readout helps ensure that the sample is evaluated in relation to a clear biological question.
Mouse brain samples are applied across neurodevelopment, behavior, neurodegeneration, injury, and drug-response research. Comparing tissue from different experimental conditions can reveal changes in cellular organization, protein distribution, or gene expression. These observations help relate a condition or treatment to nervous-system changes while keeping the analysis grounded in biological tissue.