Equipment

Equipment is used for central and peripheral nervous system studies:

  • Multihead Light Microscopes
  • Immunohistochemistry equipment
  • CISH/FISH hybridization equipment
  • Olympus Fluorescent microscope for FISH and other fluorescence-based analyses
  • Aperio Digital Slide Scanner and image analysis software for quantification of cellular characteristics including protein expression
  • Biohazard and Fume hoods for biospecimen processing
  • -150oC electrical freezers remotely monitored with backup power and liquid nitrogen- for frozen biospecimen storage
  • Slide and formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue storage cabinets
  • Labconco Lyophilizer