Aside from embedding brains in an OCT block, are there other ways to section multiple brains at once?
Depends on what you want to use it for. You can also embed in agarose.
Max Anstötz, that's what I thinking of trying. I read a methods paper where multiple brains were hemisected and embedded in an OCT block. I'm going to try what you suggested and see how that goes.
Jasmine Pahle, I'm trying to maximize the number of brains I can section at a time. I'll be mounting these directly to slides for processing.
I understand your problem. Then you can go with Maxs` suggestion. But if you use adult rat brains, you can only cut three of them because of the length of the blade at the vibratome. So it still needs a little bit of room at the sides to swing correctly.
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