Laser capture microscopes
Overview of laser capture microscopes available at the expertise centre and their features:
Zeiss PALM microbeam (Merelbeke)
Instrument specifications
- Inverted Axiovert 200 Zeiss microscope
- Objectives: 5X, 10X, 20X, 40X, 63X air and 100X oil
- Four colour channels for epifluorescence visualisation (HXP 120)
- DAPI (ex. G 365 /em. BP 445-50)
- FITC (ex. BP 470-40 / em. BP 525-50)
- AF555 (ex. BP 546-12 / em. BP 575-640)
- SpectrumAqua (ex. BP 436-20 / em. BP 480-40)
- Two detectors: Axiocam 506 mono and Axiocam 506 color
- Pulsed UVa-laser for sample collection
- PALM RoboSoftware
- ApoTome for optical sectioning (not combined with LCM operation)
- Stage top Incubator (temperature control)
- RoboMover
- Multiple inserts (200 or 500 µl tubes to load load either a single cap, eight caps, up to 12 eight cap strips or a 96 well plate)
- Live cell collector
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Location
Faculty Veterinary Medicine,
Department of Morphology,
Salisburylaan 133,
B-9820, Merelbeke
Price
Price category 1 (without use of UVa laser)
Zeiss PALM microbeam (Heymans)
Instrument specifications
- Inverted Axiovert 200 Zeiss microscope
- Objectives:
- 10X air, Fluor, 0.5NA
- 20X air, LD Plan-Neofluar 0.4 NA
- 40X air, LD Plan-Neofluar 0.6 NA
- 63X air, LD Plan-Neofluar 0.75 NA
- 63X oil, plan Apochromat, 1.4 NA
- 100X oil, EC Plan-Neofluar, 1.3 NA IRIS
- Colour channels for epifluorescence visualisation (HXP120)
- Rhodamine, GFP, CFP, DAPI, B/G/HeRed
- Two detectors: Axiocam 506 mono and Axiocam 503 color
- Pulsed UVa-laser for sample collection
- PALM RoboSoftware
- ApoTome for optical sectioning (not combined with LCM operation)
- CapMover
- Inserts for 200 µl and 500 µl tubes to load load either a single cap or two caps
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Location
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Department of Pharmaceutics,
Ottergemsesteenweg 460,
B-9000, Ghent
Price
Price category 1 (without use of UVa laser)