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Laboratory Services

  • Tissue processing, embedding, and sectioning (frozen, paraffin, plastic or floating)

  • Histological Stains: H&E, cresyl violet etc.

  • Immunohisto- or Immunocyto-chemistry with enzyme substrate development (HRP, AP) or fluorescent secondaries

  • Immunogold staining - Gold coupled to species-specific IgGs for electron microscopy.
     

Imaging Services

  • Functional Imaging: FRET, FRAP, mitochondrial and plasma membrane potential measurements, photoactivation/uncaging, etc.

  • Conventional microscopy - Brightfield, DIC, fluorescence (blue/green/red/infrared)

  • Confocal laser and two-photon microscopy-immunolocalization, colocalization, time-course, slice culture etc.

  • Transmission electron microscopy-ultrastructural studies

  • Image acquisition - Confocal laser or digital CCD images captured in black & white or color from the upright or inverted microscope.


Image Processing Services

  • Bitplane Imaris - modules include Imaris, FilamentTracer, Colocalization, AutoAligner-for 3D reconstruction and analysis for fixed or functional imaging data.

  • Huygens Deconvolution – for 3D or 4D datasets

  • Image Analyst - for 2D (plus time) intensity based analysis of functional imaging data

 

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