Core--Molecular Pathology

这一核心的主要目标是为该计划项目组的研究人员提供全面的专业知识、培训、试剂和设备，以完成固定和活细胞和组织中的组织学、分子和信使核糖核酸目标的成像。该核心支持SCCOR的六个研究项目，提供与光学检测、可视化和定量显微镜相关的服务。它提供了对完整资源的体验使用 约翰霍普金斯大学医学院的显微镜设备(包括一台出色的电子显微镜设备)和医学系的多光子激光扫描显微镜设备。Tuder博士已经组装了人员和实验室设施，以满足广泛的实验成像需求。核心C人员拥有组织准备、细胞培养、差异化洗涤剂提取和细胞骨架保存、细胞成分特定染色、显微镜和数字图像分析等领域的专业经验。Core的技术人员为这一SCCOR应用程序提供必要的支持。核心设施的特点是可以使用使用Windows PC和Macintosh工作站的多台显微镜，用于图像分析和可视化的广泛软件，以及用于产生手稿就绪的硬拷贝图像和数字的软件和硬件。特定的 这一核心提供的能力包括：实验设计咨询，免疫标记试剂和荧光蛋白嵌合体表达，标本准备，活组织检查，原位杂交，组织中放射性标记物质的放射自显影研究，光的免疫细胞化学标记，荧光，多光子，或电子显微镜检查，透射光和旋转盘的共聚焦实施两个和 三维图像处理、分析算法和定量图像分析、三维重建和立体可视化，以及涉及数字成像的图形服务。这个核心将准备和分析来自广泛研究努力的标本。重要的是，在为这项提议准备初步数据的过程中，分子病理学核心已经证明了它的灵活性、专业知识和资源是 对本SCCOR中的所有项目都是可用的，也是必不可少的。

The main objective of this Core is to provide the investigators in this program project group with a complete range of expertise, training, reagents, and equipment to accomplish the imaging of histologic, molecular, and mRNA targets in fixed and living cells and tissues. This Core supports the SCCOR's six research projects with services related to optical detection, visualization, and quantitative microscopy. It offers access to experienced use of the complete resources of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Microscope Facility (which includes an excellent electron microscope facility) and the Department of Medicine's Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscope Facility. Dr. Tuder has assembled the personnel and laboratory facilities to satisfy a wide range of experimental imaging needs. Core C personnel have professional experience spanning the fields of tissue preparation, cell culture, differential detergent extraction and cytoskeletal preservation, cell component-specific staining, microscopy and digital image analysis. The technical staff of the Core provide essential support to this SCCOR application. The core facility features access to multiple microscopes that utilize both Windows PCs and Macintosh work stations, extensive software for image analysis and visualization, and software and hardware for producing manuscript-ready images and figures in hard copy. Specific competencies provided by this Core include: consultation on experimental design, reagents for immunolabeling and fluorescence protein chimera expression, specimen preparation, biopsy processing, in situ hybridization, autoradiographic studies of radio-labeled material in tissues, immunocytochemical labeling for light, epiflurorescence, multiphoton, or electron microscopic examination, transmitted light and spinning disc confocal implementation of two-and three-dimensional image processing, analysis algorithms and quantitative image analyses, three-dimensional reconstruction and stereoscopic visualization, and graphics services involving digital imaging. This core will prepare and analyze specimens from a broad range of research endeavors. Importantly, during the preparation of preliminary data for this proposal, this Molecular Pathology Core has demonstrated that its flexibility, expertise, and resources are available and essential to all of projects in this SCCOR.