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Location: Basement (Room B11), Queen Square House.
The electron microscopy unit provides expert services for the preparation of semithin resin sections, ultra-thin sections and electron microscopy grids, and teased nerve fibres.
Electron microscopy examinations of the grids are performed by our staff in the Camelia Botnar laboratories at Great Ormond Street hospitals.
Contacts:
Angela Richard-Londt, Head Biomedical scientist,
Email: angela.richard-londt@nhs.net
Dr Michael Groves, Biomedical Scientist
Email: m.groves@ucl.ac.uk / michael.groves@nhs.net
Examples of specimen preparations in our EM Unit
Peripheral nerve; semithin resin section, MBA-BF stain
Peripheral nerve: teased fibre preparation
Peripheral nerve: Electron microscopy; widely spaced myelin.
Price List
| Transmission Electron Microscopy sample preparation charges, includes one hour EM time per sample | |
| Standard machine processing into resin, per run | £40 |
| Hand processing into resin, per run | £100 |
| Preparation of semithin section, each block | £30 |
| Preparation of set of stained grids, each block | £45 |