Plastination of Three Dimensional Brachial Plexus with P40

Abstract

This study intends to present a new aspect in plastination with P40, not only in processing brain slices, but also in plastination of three dimensional structures. We decided to make this attempt with nervous tissus and choose to plastinate human brachial plexuses. Two plexuses were removed from a fixed body, from the dissection room. After dehydration, they were immersed and impregnated with P40. The main problem in curing P40 is that it should be done under UV-light and in a closed, airless chamber, otherwise the surface of the plastinated specimen remains sticky. Curing was therefore performed by using UV-light and simultaneously keeping the specimens under vacuum.