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The Histology Core laboratory serves as a primary resource for the Department of Physiology and Biophysics faculty, staff and students as well as investigators from external departments and institutions on a fee-for-service basis. 

The laboratory is staffed by Danielle Torrain and directed by Heather A. Drummond, PhD. Both are available to assist with any inquiries.

We have moved to an online submission management system. Directions for registering with the iLab system and for submitting service requests are located within the iLab tab to the left. ALL users (Principle Investigator or Basic User, a member of a PI's research group) must register and set up an account through the iLab site listed above.

However, please be aware that a Principal Investigator must set up their account first and specify the Basic Users that have access to their account. If you are already a user of iLab via another institution, you do not need to register again and you can log into our core system using your already established iLab credentials.

Submissions for the Histology Core:

https://ummc.ilab.agilent.com/service_center/show_external/5601/histology_core

If you have trouble registering for the site, please contact Danielle Torrain at dtorrain@umc.edu for assistance.

Services

  • General histology: Routine processing, embedding and sectioning of paraffin and frozen tissues. Glycomethacrylate processing and sectioning is available upon request.

  • Special histological staining: A wide array of routine and special histological staining is performed in accordance with established Protocols. PAS, HE, etc.

  • Immunohistochemistry: Manual and automated immunohistochemistry services are available for established procedures and protocols. Consultation services are available for developing new protocols for antibodies with unknown specificities.

  • Light microscopy, epifluorescence and image analysis: The laboratory offers services and training in assessment of basic histology as well as more complex image analysis (e.g. quantitative analysis of immunohistochemical data, stereology).

  • Vibrotome for gelatin sections.

  • General training: Training for microtome use, cryosectioning, histological or immunohistochemical staining and image analysis is available at an hourly rate.

Acknowledgement of Core Services: 

This Core serves an invaluable resource for many users at UMMC and is supported by multiple NIH funded programs as well as the Department of Physiology & Biophysics. Your use of this core is greatly appreciated and we hope to continue to provide these services to support your research program. Sustainability of these core services is a major goal of the Physiology Department. 

As a user of these core services, you are expected to acknowledge the proper funding source that provides support for your use of this core. For every publication, press release or other document regarding above mentioned use of these core services, the appropriate NIH award, Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases Research Center P30GM149404 should be cited and acknowledged within PubMed Central (PMC).  Appropriate acknowledgement can be reported as follows: "Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30GM149404. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health."

However, if a manuscript includes one or more co-authors whose listed affiliation is with a foreign institution, and the publication acknowledges support from the NIH IDeA Program, including the COBRE award,investigators should contact the COBRE Administrative Core before manuscript submission. NIH has recently emphasized that publications acknowledging IDeA funding and including authors affiliated with foreign institutions may require prior review and approval by NIGMS, even when the research activities were conducted entirely in the United States. The COBRE Administrative Core will help determine whether additional documentation or consultation with NIGMS is needed before the manuscript is submitted or the award is cited.

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External collaboration

We welcome collaboration with external users. Contact us by phone or email.