Specialized Laboratories
The Platelet Shear and Flow Cytometry Laboratory is located on the 13th floor of the Alkek Research Building. This is a state-of-the-art facility for the evaluation of the effects of shear force on cell adhesion and physiology. This facility has a parallel plate flow chamber with real-time video-microscopy and a hi speed (3,600 frames/minute) digital camera, a Nikon Eclipse TE300 inverted stage fluorescence microsope (with filters for FITC, PE, pH, fura-2), a Nikon E800 upright microscope, a HAAKE RheoStress I Rheometer (viscometer) and a BioRad Fluorometer.
The Fondren Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Core Laboratory is part of the Athero-Thrombosis Laboratory dedicated to clinical/translational research in the area of occlusive vascular disease. The Thrombosis Core Laboratory has an ABI Prism 7700 Sequence Detector (real-time PCR), Dade-Behring BCS Coagulation Analyzer, a Beckman-Coulter EPICS XL-MCL flow cytometer, a HAAKE RheoStress I Rheometer (viscometer), 2 BIO-DATA 4-channel platelet PAP-4D aggregometers, a Coulter Z2 Particle Counter, a Dade-Behring PFA-100, and an MJ Research PTC-100 PCR machine.