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Postmortem changes in the neuroanatomical characteristics of the primate brain: Hippocampal formation

Lavenex, Pierre ; Lavenex, Pamela Banta ; Bennett, Jeffrey L. ; Amaral, David G.

In: The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2009, vol. 512, no. 1, p. 27 - 51

Comparative studies of the structural organization of the brain are fundamental to our understanding of human brain function. However, whereas brains of experimental animals are fixed by perfusion of a fixative through the vasculature, human or ape brains are fixed by immersion after varying postmortem intervals. Although differential treatments might affect the fundamental characteristics of the...