Kimberly B Bjugstad

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What is the "average" wet weight for dissected RAT brain areas: substantia nigra, striatum, septum, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens, or VTA?

I will be doing some discrete brain dissections and need to justifying my animal numbers. I want to pool my tissue samples to get a solution that is 700 mg/ml. Does anyone have information...

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Non-specific DAPI binding?

I de-cellularized brain sections and wanted to verify that there were no more cells. I used DAPI to do this since it is specific for nuclei. In my controls (picture A) there are obvious labeled...

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What's a good counterstain for DAB based IHC in brain tissues?

We've noticed that we can get really good DAB-nickle staining (black) for our marker of interest (in this case BrdU) but when we go to counterstain with cresyl violet the DAB appears to fade out...

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