HistoCore Facility

Therapeutic pathology

Infrastructure

    Infrastructure Details

    Acronym

    HCF

    Description

    The HistoCore facility offers services for studying cells and tissue specimens of experimental animal and human origin. The purpose is to facilitate for researchers to connect to the pathology department and obtain well-annotated biobank samples for various omics analyses. The facility strives to interact with and increase the visibility of other similar facilities in the region of Malmö and Lund.

    Equipment and resources

    • Cryostat (thermo scientific NX50)
    • Microtomes (LEICA RM2255)
    • Tissue micro array (Pathology Devices)
    • Dehydration instrument (TISSUE-TEK VIP)
    • Staining platform (LEICA RM2255, Autostainer Link 48)
    • Extraction instrument (QIAcube)
    • TissueLyser (QIAGEN LT)
    • Scanner (AXIOSCAN Z1)
    • Embedding station

    Services provided

    The HistoCore facility provides services such as histoprocessing, paraffin embedding, paraffin sectioning, frozen sectioning, construction of tissue microarrays (TMA) and paraffin embedded cell blocks, immunohistochemistry, and extraction of DNA/RNA from human and animal tissues, cells in culture and blood. We also provide services for slide scanning.

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Other Clinical Medicine

    Type of infrastructure

    • Digital collections
    • Equipment
    • Physical collections
    • Services

    Contact information

    NameBjörn Nodin

    Terms of loan/booking

    Available for loan - internal only

    The facility applies user-fees and is open to use by anyone at Lund University.