Pathology Core Equipment

Equipment

1. 6-foot vertical laminar flow biological safety cabinets (Nuaire) (1)
2. liquid nitrogen freezer with inventory storage systems (Forma)
3. -80°C chest freezer (1)
4. paraffin microtome with knives and holders (Reichert/Jung) (1)
5. water bath (Lipshaw) for paraffin section flotation (1)
6. bench top fume contaminant hood (Lipshaw) for deparaffinizing tissue sections (1)
7. desktop computer (1)
8. Centra M microcentrifuge (IEC) for antisera preparation (1)
9. fixed angle table top centrifuge (Hamilton-Bell) for serum preparation (1)
10. microwave oven (1)
11. fume hood (1)
12. Ventana automated immunostaining system (1)
13. Zeiss Cryostat 505 (1)
14. Arcturus AutoPix Laser Capture Instrument
15. Agilent Bioanalyzer (to access the quality of extremely small sample sizes of RNA, DNA and protein obtained from laser capture microdissection)