The NHLBI Light Microscopy Core (LMC) has been in operation for seventeen years. The NHLBI-LMF consists of three people, Dr. Christian A. Combs (Director), Dr. Daniela A. Malide, and Dr. Xufeng Wu (Deputy Director) and twenty-three microscopes located in buildings 10 and 50 on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. To date we have helped researchers publish more than 298 papers and assisted almost every NHLBI-DIR Center and Branch. Over the period of september, 2016 through August, 2017 we have helped to publish at least 25 peer-reviewed papers. Research conducted in the LMC has been on many disease states basic cell biology, and on development and implementation of new imaging techniques. The general makeup of the NHLBI-LMC reflects the evolving light microscopy needs of NHLBI-DIR researchers and a commitment to provide a maximal level of assistance to the NHLBI mission. The mission of this facility is to provide state-of-the-art equipment, training, and image processing capabilities to assist NHLBI-DIR researchers in experiments involving light microscopy. Researchers that work in this facility can expect support from core personnel to whatever level suits their research. This can include advanced microscopy techniques like intra-vital two-photon microscopy and super-resolution microscopy to more ordinary wide-field imaging applications. Our emphasis is on training users to conduct the experiments themselves, although we are available for collaboration and all manner of assistance (experimental planning, data analysis and image processing, etc.) where required. Over the seventeen years this facility has been in existence we have endeavored to provide a flexible and easy to use facility that meets researchers needs and allows them to conduct their experiments in an efficient manner even if they have had no prior microscopy experience. These goals are met in several ways. First, we have an array of microscopes that offer a wide-range of microscopy techniques. These microscopes and the microscopy techniques available have been chosen and developed in response to the specific needs of researchers in the institute. In addition to the microscopes, we provide a full suite of image processing programs in several image processing workstations. Where image-processing capabilities are lacking in these programs we develop our own image processing programs. In summary this facility operates with state of the art equipment and a dedicated team of imaging professionals to further the research mission of the NHLBI-DIR.

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Dong, Fei; Jin, Xueting; Boettler, Michelle A et al. (2018) A Mouse Model of Schnyder Corneal Dystrophy with the N100S Point Mutation. Sci Rep 8:10219
Jin, Xueting; Dimitriadis, Emilios K; Liu, Ying et al. (2018) Macrophages Shed Excess Cholesterol in Unique Extracellular Structures Containing Cholesterol Microdomains. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 38:1504-1518
Glancy, Brian; Hartnell, Lisa M; Combs, Christian A et al. (2017) Power Grid Protection of the Muscle Mitochondrial Reticulum. Cell Rep 19:487-496
Combs, Christian A; Shroff, Hari (2017) Fluorescence Microscopy: A Concise Guide to Current Imaging Methods. Curr Protoc Neurosci 79:2.1.1-2.1.25
Sun, Nuo; Malide, Daniela; Liu, Jie et al. (2017) A fluorescence-based imaging method to measure in vitro and in vivo mitophagy using mt-Keima. Nat Protoc 12:1576-1587
Lucotte, Bertrand M; Powell, Chloe; Knutson, Jay R et al. (2017) Direct visualization of the arterial wall water permeability barrier using CARS microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:4805-4810
Harris, Dinari A; Patel, Sajni H; Gucek, Marjan et al. (2015) Exosomes released from breast cancer carcinomas stimulate cell movement. PLoS One 10:e0117495
Ahmad, Faiyaz; Shen, Weixing; Vandeput, Fabrice et al. (2015) Regulation of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase 2 (SERCA2) activity by phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A) in human myocardium: phosphorylation-dependent interaction of PDE3A1 with SERCA2. J Biol Chem 290:6763-76
Kato, J; Vekhter, D; Heath, J et al. (2015) Mutations of the functional ARH1 allele in tumors from ARH1 heterozygous mice and cells affect ARH1 catalytic activity, cell proliferation and tumorigenesis. Oncogenesis 4:e151
Yu, Panpan; Agbaegbu, Chinyere; Malide, Daniela A et al. (2015) Cooperative interactions of LPPR family members in membrane localization and alteration of cellular morphology. J Cell Sci 128:3210-22

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