Within our facility, equipment is available to produce high quality sections of frozen or paraffin embedded materials as well as vibratome sections of fixed tissue samples.

Histology Staining

• Luxol fast blue      
• Nissl       
• H&E
• Golgi Cox staining

Immunohistochemistry & Cytochemistry

• Astrocytes : GFAP, Vimentin, Nestin
• Microglia : OX42, Iba1
• Macrophage : ED1
• Oligodendrocytes : CNPAse, MBP
• Neurons : NF, 5-HT, TH, CGRP, Map2
• Retrograde & anterograde labelling of the corticospinal tract using fluorescent or peroxidase coupled markers (BDA)

• Client-specified markers

Ultrastructural analysis

• Araldite embedded tissue
• Semi-thin and ultra-thin sections

Imaging

• Electron microscopy
• Confocal microscopy
• Cellomics® imager
• Slide scanning and storage of virtual slides with Nanozoomer (Hamamatsu technology)
• Quantification of labeling (Image J, Definiens®)

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