Histology

Core Users - We need your pub citations!

The Histology Core receives financial support from the Nevada INBRE, a program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH requires all facilities receiving INBRE support to deliver an annual progress report that includes a list of publications and presentations that include data generated from INBRE supported cores.

If you have publications, posters or presentations that include data generated from the Histology Core, please send a complete citation by March 10 to Heather Goulding to include in our report. Thank you!

The non-profit Histology Core facility serves as a support core facility for the research community in the State of Nevada. We offer histology services such as paraffin embedding tissue into blocks, cutting/sectioning of blocks, H&E and special staining, frozen sections, immunohistochemisty staining, double staining, in-situ hybridization, generation of tissue arrays as well as high quality digital capturing of microscopic images.

The facility is housed at the Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas. Partial support for this facility is provided by the Nevada IDEA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) award from the NCRR.  Users of our services should cite 2 P20 RR016463 in all publications and grant proposals.  We offer a 50% an additional discount to investigators in Nevada INBRE partner institutions.

Double IHC stain of bone marrow.  Red staining is CD31 and brown is HAM56.	In-Situ Hybridization Staining of Lambda cells(blue) in bone marrow.	CD34+ cells(brown) & Ki67+ cells (red in nuclei) Mast cells blue nucleus with pink granular cytoplasm, in an infantile hemangioma.