Equipment
Chemistry Lab
Centrifuges
Liquid scintillation (Beta) counter
Spectrophotometers
Gamma counter
Spectrofluorometer
Force transducers
Organ bath chamber
Stereotaxic apparatus
Physiograph recorders
Biological safety cabinets
-70° and -20° freezers
Chemical hoods
Balances
Autoclave.
Immune Function Lab
Biological safety cabinet
Tissue culture incubators
Refrigerated centrifuge
Microfuge
Compound microscope
Inverted tissue culture microscope
Fluorescence microscope
Coulter counter
Plate washer
Gamma counter (Beckman)
-70 freezer, -20 freezer
Refrigerators
Liquid N2 storage tank
Computer terminal for analysis of FACS data
Molecular Lab
DNA thermal cycler 9700 (Perkins-Elmer Biosystems)
Refrigerated Jouan centrifuge with rotors for Eppendorf and larger tubes
Polaroid camera for gel documentation
Hybridization incubators for Northern and Southern analysis (Robbin Scientific)
Horizontal gel electrophoresis units (2)
Vertical gel electrophoresis units (2)
Exercise
An Exercise and Cardiovascular Monitoring Laboratory (T647) is equipped with components of a computerized
physiological data acquisition and analysis system, including
Holter analysis system
Baroreflex system
Metabolic cart
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
Respisomnograph system
Computational Laboratory
SpaceLabs FT2000
Vision Premier
2 optical scanners
2 behavioral coding workstations including CODER-2 software, an industrial quality video cassette recorder,
compatible with both VHS and S-VHS formats, with a remote control connector that can be addressed by a
computer through a special interface, video monitor capable of representing S-VHS high resolution images,
Adrienne Vertical Interval Time Code (VITC) computer-to-VCR interface, S-VHS VITC Camcorder
Sleep
Embla system with Somnologica software
More than 20 ambulatory monitors (Mini-Logger, Sunriver, OR)
Software is available for scoring the activity data for sleep detection and cosinor analysis of temperature data.