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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2013;998:341–353. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-351-0_27

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Schematic illustration of the method used to isolate cortical collecting ducts for patch-clamp analysis. The kidney is isolated from the mouse and then cut into thin slices (<1 mm). Segments of interest are then mechanically isolated from these slices with microdissection typically using watchmaker forceps and a stereomicroscope