11650 IUPAC Gold Book - brain slice 10.1351/goldbook.11650 11650 current 1 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. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647 neural https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11919 synapse https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12109 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) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11650/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11650/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11650/plain 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 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-15T01:25:37+00:00