Abstract

We determined whether pentobarbital anesthetic is required to culture postmortem adult rat neurons. Pentobarbital treatment resulted in two-fold increases in neuron survival in culture after 2 and 4 h postmortem compared to non-anesthetic controls, but was not as effective as simple postmortem treatment on ice and therefore not essential.

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