title: Human brain slicer: a method for cutting coronal slices of fresh and fixed human brains.
abstract: A brain holder has been specially designed to make parallel thin slices of the fresh or preserved brain. Thin stainless steel plates with sharpened edges are used to cut coronal brain slices. These slices can be dissected and either frozen or preserved in a fixative.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical Science, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Jacobowitz
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Fitze
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008867:Microtomy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods