Title: brain slice
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - brain slice
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.11650
Status: current

Definition
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.

Related Terms
- brain: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647
- neural: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11919
- synapse: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12109

Source
- PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 853 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103)

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- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11650/xml

Citation: Citation: 'brain slice' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11650
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