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Cancer Borealis Stomatogastric Nervous System Dissection
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Biology
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Cancer Borealis Stomatogastric Nervous System Dissection
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18:37 min

March 23, 2009

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Chapters

  • 00:00Title
  • 00:36Introduction
  • 01:15Gross Dissection Part1: Removing the External Structures
  • 04:34Gross Dissection Part 2: Extracting the Stomach with attached CNS parts
  • 06:39Fine Dissection: Extracting the STNS
  • 14:59Preparing the STNS for experimentation
  • 17:24Representative Results
  • 17:55Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

The stomatogastric nervous system (STNS) of the Jonah crab (C. borealis) can be used for electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and cell culture studies. The STNS extraction is done in two parts: the gross and fine dissection.

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