Rescuing perishable neuroanatomical information from a threatened biodiversity hotspot: Remote field methods for brain tissue preservation validated by cytoarchitectonic analysis, immunohistochemistry, and X-ray microcomputed tomography
Daniel F. Hughes, Ellen M. Walker, Paul M. Gignac, Anais Martinez, Kenichiro Negishi, Carl S. Lieb, Eli Greenbaum, Arshad M. Khan
The paper validates field methods for preserving lizard brain tissue in remote areas, showing they maintain cytoarchitecture, immunostaining, and imaging quality comparable to lab conditions.
PLOS ONE · May 19, 2016Peer-reviewedNeuroscience