Much of the work carried out by DTT is in support of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), an interagency partnership of the Food and Drug Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and NIEHS.
Pathology Support Group
The Electron Microscopy Support Team provides complete in-house, routine transmission electron microscopy support for researchers in the NIEHS Division of Intramural Research, including the National Toxicology Program.
Electron Microscopy Support Staff
Capabilities
- Collect & Process a variety of samples
- Digital TEM images
- Epoxy and acrylic resin embedding
- Tissue staining
- Toluidine blue O
- Uranyl acetate
- Reynold’s lead citrate
- Evaluation/interpretation of TEM data
- Fixative preparation
- Immunoelectron Microscopy (IEM)
- Negative staining of proteins, viruses and nanoparticles
- Report preparation
- Tissue processing (manual/automatic)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)