- Human Brain Bank (4-80ยบ freezers)
- Human tissue processing laboratory (microtome)
- Receptor autoradiography laboratory (cryostat)
- Immunhistochemistry laboratory
- In situ hybridisation laboratory
- Confocal microscopy and video enhanced microscopy
- Electron microscopy
- Fluorescence microscopy and image analysis
- High-Content Screening Platform (Discovery-1 automated microscope; Fluostar spectrofluorometer;
Embla 96-well plate washer)
- Molecular (Western blotting, EMSAs, IPs, etc) and Cellular (intracellular injection
and digital time-lapse microscopy) Biology Laboratories.
- Tissue Culture Platform (focusing upon human cell systems where possible).
We are currently developing human dissociated astrocytic and microglial cultures
(and slice cultures) from adult biopsy and post-mortem human brain.
