ACTIVITIES
• Space rent: set of equipment and reagents are available to autonomous users
• Training: in various histology technics (cutting, staining, immuno or histochemistry…)
• Technical advice, assistance to the development of new protocols
• Histology services: embedding, cutting, histochemical or immunohistochemical staining, results analysis
EQUIPMENT
240 sqm laboratory for the manipulation of animal tissue (rat, mice, zebra-fish, primates, etc.) and human post-mortem tissues.
• Cutting equipment :
8 cryostats
4 sliding freezing microtomes
3 paraffin microtomes
4 vibratomes
1 laser capture micro-dissector
• Equipment for standard histology
11 lab benches (with access to: plastic consumables & reagents for immunohistochemistry, numerous dyes, decloacking chamber, ovens, microwave, water bath …)
1 RNAse-free lab bench (In situ Hybridization, LMD staining)
1 Paraffin embedding processor
5 fume hood (toxic reagents)
• Tissue clearing equipment
Clarity setup
Disco setup
• Microscopy/Digital Acquisitions
Binocular loupe (Fluorescence & bright field) with camera for digital acquisitions Microscope (Bright field) with camera for digital acquisitions
Microscope (Fluorescence & bright field) with double head, external monitor and camera for digital acquisitions
2 slide scanners (6 to 100 slides/tray; Fluorescence & bright field)