Members of the CPRC come from a number of different Schools and Departments. As a result, the shared resources of the CPRC is much greater than each individual lab. Below are examples of the resources available for CPRC member labs.
Shared Facilities
- Molecular imaging facilities (Mellon Hall/School of Sicence and Engineering and School
of Pharmacy)
- Licor Pearl system (Bayer Learning Center/Div of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dept of Biological Sciences)
- Licor Odyssey system (Div of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dept of Biological Sciences)
- Quantitative PCR:
- Corbett Research Rotor-Gene 2000 Real-Time Quantitative PCR (Mellon Hall 222/Dept of Biological Sciences)
- Qiagen Rotor-Gene Q Real-Time Quantitative PCR (Mellon Hall 222/Dept of Biological Sciences)
- Life Technologies Step-One Real-Time Quantitative PCR (Mellon Hall 262/Dept of Biological Sciences)
Pharmaceutical development laboratory (Mellon Hall/School of Pharmacy)
- Sony microscopy facility (Mellon Hall / Biological Sciences)
- Confocal microscopy:
- Leica TCS SP2 Spectral Confocal Microscope System
- Nikon Eclipse E600 epifluorescence microscope with infinity objectives and Nomarski, brightfield, darkfield, and phase contrast capabilities.
- Nikon Microphot SA epifluorescence microscope with differential interference contrast, brightfield, darkfield, and phase contrast capabilities.
- Histology:
- ICE OM2488 microtome cryostat for frozen sections.
- Confocal microscopy:
- Electron microscopy facility (Mellon Hall)
- JEOL 100CX transmission electron microscope (TEM), a Pasco CamScan4 scanning electron microscope (SEM) with Microspec wavelength dispersive X- ray analysis and Princeton Gamma Tech digital interface, critical point dryer, gold particle sputter coater, Reichart ultramicrotome, Baltzer Freeze Fracture apparatus, two standard microtomes.
- Small animal testing facilities
- Behavioral testing for nociception (von Frey, thermal plantar, cold plantar, conditioned place preference, hot plate, OPTA tolerance testing, sensory motor battery)
- Behavioral testing for anxiety and depression (FST, TST, elevated plus maze, open field maze, elevated zero maze, light-dark preference, novelty induced hypophagia, sucrose preference)
- Behavioral testing for cognition (novel object recognition, fear conditioning)
- Human psychometric testing (mechanical, pressure, thermal)
- Rangos Exercise Testing Facility
- Interfaith meditation room
- Optogenetic tools (Mellon Hall/Dept of Biological Sciences)
- 473nm blue light and 522nm green light lasers and LEDs
- Fiber optic tools for chronic in vivo implants
- NeuroLux wireless optogenetics tools
- Optogenetic viral vectors for general and cell-type specific optogenetic activation