Comparison of speed-vacuum method and heat-drying method to measure brain water content of small brain samples

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• 作者：Anne Sebastiani^a ; Tobias Hirnet^a ; Antje Jahn-Eimermacher^b ; Serge C. Thal^a ; ^{serge@thal.de}
• 关键词：Brain water content ; Brain edema ; Drying technique ; Oven ; Vacuum ; SpeedVac ; Centrifugal vacuum concentrators ; Speed-vacuum drying ; Heat-drying ; Vacuum-drying
• 刊名：Journal of Neuroscience Methods
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：30 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：276
• 期：Complete
• 页码：73-78
• 全文大小：566 K
• 卷排序：276

文摘

The vacuum method is superior in terms of quantifying water content in small samples. Vacuum-dried samples can also be used for subsequent analyses, e.g., genotyping of the animals. Vacuum methods allows brain region specific quantification of brain water content.