A Method to Make a Craniotomy on the Ventral Skull of Neonate RodentsAdrián Rodríguez-Contreras 1, Lingyan Shi 2, Bingmei M. Fu 2
1Department of Biology, The City University of New York, City College, 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City University of New York, City College
A surgical method is described to expose the ventral skull in neonate rats. Using this approach it is possible to open a craniotomy to perform acute electrophysiology and two-photon microscopy experiments in the brainstem of anesthetized pups.
