TY  - JOUR
A1  - ,  
T1  - Setting up a plastination laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
JO  - Eur. J. Anat.
SN  - 1136-4890
Y1  - 2004
VL  - 8
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
UR  - http://www.eurjanat.com/web/paper.php?id=04010001
KW  - polymer
KW  - silastic
KW  - anatomy
KW  - article
KW  - budget
KW  - building
KW  - cost
KW  - device
KW  - equipment
KW  - financial management
KW  - human
KW  - investment
KW  - laboratory
KW  - medical research
KW  - medical school
KW  - money
KW  - morphology
KW  - plastination
KW  - Spain
KW  - standard
KW  - teaching
KW  - university
N2  - Plastination is a laboratory tool used to preserve biological tissues that has been applied to morphological studies, teaching and research. The technique reduces exposure to toxic fumes and diminishes damage to anatomical preparations during their manipulation. Contrary to intuition, the basic technique of plastination does not require any significant economical investment. The technical equipment and laboratory products can be obtained with a limited budget. Moreover, facility requirements are simple and not very expensive if only the basic technique is pursued. In the present work, we report our experience in the design and setting up of a laboratory to plastinate anatomical preparations using the S10 standard technique at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We explain the different ways we used to finance this laboratory and the cost of the facility, the technical equipment and the laboratory products. We also report the first results concerning the first anatomical preparations obtained by us.
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