We break our vertebrae with (conveniently named) bone cutters, as they’re too thick for the rongeur you use for your mice.
I tried out your technique with a rat, and I think this approach will be much better for our spinal cord dissections than what we had been doing before! However, there was a pretty significant amount of blood, which flooded the spinal canal and made it much harder to dissect out the cord and DRGs. Any idea what vessels may be the culprit, and how to best avoid them for a cleaner dissection?
Thanks again for your help