Tissues
Our unit supports wide research in imaging of animal or plant tissues.
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Blood vessel of a spinal cord
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Rat choroid plexus
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A nerve graft for nerve repair in rats
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Rat intestine cells
We also routinely perform 3-dimensional reconstructions of certain structures in the cells or tissues.
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Brain dendrites reconstructed from serially sectioned mice hippocampus (red – synaptic active zone, scale cube – 1um3)
Topographical analysis of animals or plants can be also performed using our SEM.
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Fruit fly head