Histology Laboratory

  • The histolab is equipped with everything needed for light and electron microscopic preparations
  • Fume hood, sample evacuation and sample rotation for fixation, dehydration and embedding 
  • Ovens for penetration of paraplast and polymerisation of epoxy and metacrylate resins
  • Microtomes for fresh, freeze, thin and ultrathin sectioning; i.e. cryostat microtome, ultramicrotome and vibrating microtome (see upper panel) and rotation microtome
  • The resulting sections can be analysed and documented with bright field,  scanning and transmission electron microscopes (examples shown below)   

Protein bodies localised in marama seeds (Tylosema
esculentum)		 Pollen grain from the hetero-stylous plant Lythrum salicaria

Plasmodesmata between leaf cells in Arabidopsis

Mosele M, Hansen Aa,
Hansen M, Schulz A,
Martens HJ (2011) Food Chem. 2011

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