This facility is a joint venture with the Doheny Eye Institute and has a 5th generation confocal microscope available for use. Current services offered by the cell and tissue core module include specimen preparation and training in the operation of laser scanning confocal microscopy, multiphoton laser scanning confocal microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fluorescence microscopy and quantitation, of immunocytochemical procedures, fluorescence and brightfield microdissection and microcapture, thin sectioning techniques, embedding procedures, cryosectioning techniques, photography, digital photomicroscopy and photomicrography and computer aided graphics.
Other equipment located in the facility includes a vacuum evaporator, sputter coater, critical point dryer, two print processors, three enlargers, two print and film dryers, two dissecting microscopes, a tissue cryostat, tissue chopper, several computer workstations, a Polaroid slide maker, a color laser printer and a slide scanner.
Pictures of available equipment:
LSM 510 Confocal / Multiphoton and its Titanium Sapphire Laser (Multiphoton Laser)
Transmission Electron Microscope
Scanning Electron Microscope
Video
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