Cost for U54 Projects

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

Histology Services:

no charge per slide (1-3 sections)

no charge per slide staining:

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

no charge for micrscope use--bright field, phase optics (includes image capture and analysis)

no charge for fluorescence microscope use (image capture)

Technician Time: no charge

• 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