Imaging and Histology Core

MTCC成像和组织学核心为生物医学领域提供一套现代数字成像服务。 位于查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学的研究人员致力于开发基因疗法 载体和程序。简单地说，核心将支持基因治疗研究人员的努力， 优化腺相关病毒载体、慢病毒和副粘病毒的复制和靶向 向量。此外，核心还将支持了解病毒感染的功能屏障的努力 由肺气道和胃肠系统中的粘液和管腔糖萼提供， 目的是改善病毒载体通过这些器官的粘液/粘蛋白屏障的递送。的 核心福尔斯提供的支助分为三类。首先，核心提供小动物和宏观成像 以低温冷却CCD光度计和常规CCD的形式为基因治疗设施提供服务 用于基因表达研究的照相机、用于肺清除研究的γ照相机肺动脉造影术和CCD 配备摄像头的荧光立体解剖显微镜，用于各种目的。其次，核心提供了一个 全方位的现代数字成像显微镜服务，包括一套传统的宽视场和激光 扫描共聚焦显微镜给基因治疗研究者。第三，调查人员还可以充分利用 服务组织学和电子显微镜设施。通过所有这些服务，调查人员还可以获得 提供技术咨询，并协助解决图像定量和数据提取问题。 所提供的服务完全符合现代数字图像技术对分子生物学的重要性。 药物和有效的基因疗法的发展。

The MTCC Imaging & Histology Core offers a suite of modern digital imaging services to biomedical nvestigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working to develop gene therapy delivery vectors and procedures. Briefly, the Core will support efforts of gene therapy investigators working to optimize the replication and targeting of adeno-associated viral vectors, and lentiviral and paramyxoviral vectors. Additionally, the Core will also support efforts to understand the functional barrier to viral infection offered by mucus and the luminal glycocalyx in the airways of the lung and in the gastrointestinal system, with the aim of improving delivery of viral vectors through the mucus/mucin barriers of these organs. The support offered by the Core falls into three categories. First, the Core offers small animal and macro imaging services to UNC gene therapy facilities, in the form of cryo-cooled CCD-luminometry and conventional CCD cameras for gene expression studies, gamma-camera scintigraphy for lung clearance studies, and CCD camera-equipped fluorescent stereo dissection microscopy for varied purposes. Second, the Core offers a full range of modern digital imaging microscopy services, with a suite of conventional wide field and laser scanning confocal microscopes to gene therapy investigators. Third, investigators also have available full service histology and electron microscopy facilities. With all these services, investigators also receive consultation with technical problems and assistance with problems in image quantitation and data extraction. The services offered are fully consistent with the importance of modern digital image technology to molecular medicine and the development of effective gene therapies.