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Taken in by the tone (the first third of "The Bell Jar" might be a mordant, sick-joke version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"), the reader is being lured into the lion's den — that sterile cement room in the basement of a mental hospital where the electric-shock-therapy machine waits for its frightened clients.
Before surgery, sterile cement liquid (1 % Na2HPO4; 200 μL) was added to provide injectability.
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We performed mixing and preparation of the bone cements under sterile conditions according to the manufacturers' instructions.
A small block of sterile pre-polymerized pre-shaped bone cement (Palacos R-40, Schering-Plough Europe) was transplanted into the medullary canal.
Finally, a glass coverslip was cut to the size of the craniotomy using a stylus, mounted on the opening using low melting point agarose (1 2% in sterile saline), and secured with Grip cement.
Temporary cements were prepared in sterile Teflon rings (5 mm in diameter, 2 mm high).
Prior to behavioral training, each animal was implanted with a custom-made titanium head-post using titanium cranial screws (Gray Matter Research, Bozeman, MT) and an acrylic cranial patch (Palacos Bone Cement; Zimmer Inc., Warsaw, IN) using sterile surgical procedures.
The cement spacers were packed into sterile containers, covered with four hundred millilitres of Ringer's solution, and sent for sonication.
Protruding cement was filled off with a sterile file.
The syringes were immediately submerged in a sterile ice water bath after mixing the bone cement at room temperature.
The cement foaming process was performed under sterile conditions in the operating theater using a water bath at 50 °C.
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