MDRC Islet Core
The Islet Core provides consultative advice and state-of-the-art equipment and services for the isolation and study of pancreatic islet structure and function in support of diabetes-related research.
RRID
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University of Michigan MDRC Islet Core RRID:SCR_026769
Serving
External Researchers, U-M Researchers
Service Categories
Animal Research, Biorepository, Histology, Pathology, & Tissue, Human Research, Imaging, Microscopy, and Analysis, Physiology
Services
- Whole pancreas isolation
- Embryonic pancreas isolation
- rodent islet isolation
- β- α-cell mass
- Proliferation assesments
- Apoptosis assesments
- Static GSIS
- Perifusion
- Respirometry
- Transfection
- Islet dissociation and pseudo-islets
- Live fluorescent imaging
- Embryonic rudiments cultures
- Grafts and Imaging in the anterior chamber of the eye
- Human islets
Equipment
- Perifusion aparatus
- Cytospin
- Digital stereotaxic frame
- Fluorescence wide depth of field microscope
- Auto-isolator
- COBE
- Perfusion pump