UIC Center for Women's Health  and Reproduction

Center for Women's Health and Reproduction
Imaging and Microscopy Core

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Cost for NICHD Reproductive Sciences Branch Grants:

User provides funds to purchase anitbodies, Vectastain Kits, specialty reagents

Histology Services:

$1.00 per slide (1-3 sections)

$2.50 per slide staining:

  • H&E, ABC peroxidase, etc
  • immunohistochemistry
  • immunofluroscence
  • TUNEL
  • in situ hybridization

$5/hour micrscope use--bright field, phase optics (includes image capture and analysis)

$10.00/hr fluorescence microscope use (image capture)

Technician Time: $5/hr includes (25% of cost to non-HD grants)

  • image processing and analysis
  • training
  • trouble shooting/consulting
  • research/technique development
  • embedding
  • sectioning
  • staining (H&E, ABC peroxidase, etc.)

Service includes tissue in, slide out (includes embedding and sectioning)

    • Frozen tissue delivered in OCT on dry-ice
    • Fixed tissue delivered in fixative/ethanol on ice


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Obstetrics/Gynecology
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