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At the end of the study, animals were sacrificed by decapitation, and their brains were taken out and fixed in 10% formalin.
After 1 month, the rats were sacrificed by decapitation and the hearts were carefully extracted and weighed.
Mice were decapitated decapitation after a brief (approximately 45 second) exposure to carbon dioxide; we have verified in pilot studies that the brief exposure to carbon dioxide does not significantly affect the plasma corticosterone levels under these conditions (Table 3).
The mice were sacrificed toward the end of the light period at the end of the day in the metabolic cages (between 17:00 and 19:00 h) by decapitation after a brief exposure to carbon dioxide and trunk blood was collected; we have verified in pilot studies that this method of sacrifice does not increase plasma corticosterone above levels observed without carbon dioxide exposure.
The PG-13 rated movie, Wild Wild West , for example, opens with a 'humorous' decapitation, and the PG rated movie, Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace , contains numerous violent deaths."