Slice of
brain tissue immersed in artificial cerebrospinal fluid, used in electrophysiology experiments to allow study of a
synapse or
neural circuit in isolation from the rest of the
brain, and in metabolic studies, under controlled physiological conditions.
Source: PAC, 2015,
87, 841. (
IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)) on page 853 [
Terms] [
Paper]