Also you can cut them open when you are done. Can't do that to people. Sometimes you need biochemical tests and imaging very quickly post mortem to avoid change

Also you can cut them open when you are done. Can't do that to people. Sometimes you need biochemical tests and imaging very quickly post mortem to avoid changes in protein postranslational modifications. This is particularly important in AD studies. We needed to kill the mice and have their hippocampi in a grinder with phosphatase inhitor in under 10 minutes.