Services

A. Light Microscopy

• Bright field
• Dark field
• Phase contrast
• Epifluorescence

• Phase or reflection contrast
• Epifluorescence
• Dual channel imaging with merge function
• Optical sectioning
• Fluorescence quantitation

C. Histology

• Frozen sections
• Paraffin wax sections
• Serial and step sectioning
• Hematoxylin & eosin stains
• Trichrome, Sirius Red, and other stains

D. Photomicrography

• Recording of images with a variety of films, cameras, filters and optical systems

E. Image analysis

• Quantitative morphometry
• Lipoprotein particle analysis (size, shape and numbers)
• Atherosclerosis studies (lesion quantitation in aortic root and entire aorta)
• Image processing (noise subtraction, shading removal, montaging)

F. Immunostaining of cells and tissues

• Fluorescent and chromagenic reporting
• Avidin-biotin sandwich techniques
• Tyramide signal amplification
• Immunogold staining at EM level