Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Medical Readiness Systems Biology, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience

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Microdissection of Mouse Brain into Functionally and Anatomically Different Regions

James Meyerhoff¹, Seid Muhie¹, Nabarun Chakraborty², Lalith Naidu³, Bintu Sowe³, Rasha Hammamieh², Marti Jett⁴, Aarti Gautam²

¹The Geneva Foundation, Medical Readiness Systems Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, ²Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Medical Readiness Systems Biology, Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, ³ORISE Fellow, Medical Readiness Systems Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, ⁴Headquarter, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

We present a hands-on, step-by-step, rapid protocol for mouse brain removal and dissection of discrete regions from fresh brain tissue. Obtaining brain regions for molecular analysis has become routine in many neuroscience labs. These brain regions are immediately frozen to obtain high quality transcriptomic data for system level analysis.