Mission: Provide high quality and innovative histology and immunolocalization services to UF researchers and their collaborators.

Links and forms:

• Submission information
  • Forms- save forms first to computer then fill out, email as attachment
    • Account registration form
    • Submission form
    • Cassette printing request form
  • Fees
• Research Histology
  • Slide scanning
  • Tissue Microarray Lab
  • Veterinary Pathology Review
• Immunopathology
• Images 
• Molecular Tissue Bank
  Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Organ Procurement and Pathology Core

The Molecular Pathology Core (MPC) was established in November, 2000, to support research conducted by faculty in the Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine and their collaborators for studies in which histopathology and immunopathology play a critical role. Services are provided to those who program grant support for the Core and as fee-for-service. In addition to UF, the MPC has provided support to investigators at The Jackson Labs, UCLA, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, University of Miami and Michigan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, University of Alberta, Canada, and those in industry.

Histopathology services using Good Lab Practice (GLP) procedures were established with the National Gene Vector Laboratories Toxicology Center at UF.

In addition to extensive histology capabilities, Core staff has expertise in molecular analyses of tissues and cells, including immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and FISH/ISH. We have a superb record of optimizing procedures for immunodetection of various antigens in human, mouse, and rat including immunophenotyping (B and T cells, macrophages). Core staff can also work up new procedures with investigators. The MPC provides a major educational function for investigators in the following:

• On-site education in necropsy, tissue grossing and trimming, histology, histochemistry, immunolocalization, in situ hybridization, direct and fluorescence microscopy, morphological interpretation, and image analysis. 
• Consultation in project design and interpretation of pathology findings.

Acknowledgments

This facility is made possible through funding from the NIH/NCI, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and other granting agencies. Thanks to Matt Parker, PhD candidate, for web design.