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A new type of tissue holder is described in which the slices are freely floating. Rat brain-cortex slices incubated in this holder show a potassium concentration of 70.4 μmoles/g final wet wt. after incubation and transfer for 1 hr.
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Arnfred, T., Hertz, L., Lolle, L. et al. An improved holder for transfer of brain slices during in vitro incubation. Exp Brain Res 11, 373–375 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237910
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237910