The goal of this Core is to provide faculty in the Center for Hearing and Balance, and associatedlaboratories, with access to histological equipment and expertise and assistance. The visualization andquantification of structural features that correlate with physiological, developmental, and/or plasticphenomena within the peripheral and central nervous systems provide fundamental data necessary to inferbasic mechanisms of neural function. But with the increasingly specialized nature of science, the expenseand difficulty of such studies can place them out of reach for most laboratories. Common resources fostercollaborations between scientists with different skill sets and can be the key to implementing excitingresearch projects that bridge different levels of analysis. Anatomical data frequently support this bridge.The Histology Core will continue to provide assistance as well as access to, and instruction in the tools andresources required for tissue preparation and sectioning for light microscopy. This includes both plasticembeddedand frozen sections. The Core provides and maintains a light/fluorescence compoundmicroscope with digital camera for image acquisition and auxiliary workstations for analysis. In addition theCore will enable ultrastructural studies through the services of an experienced electron microsopist.
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