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https://www.visualsonics.com/product/imaging-systems/vevo-3100
Vevo 3100 micro ultrasound imaging system reduces speckle noise and artifacts while preserving and enhancing critical information for small animal in vivo studies. System helps you visualize your data at high resolution.
Proper citation: Fujifilm: Vevo 3100 Imaging System (RRID:SCR_022152) Copy
Designed to eliminate complexities of microscopy, EVOS XL Core system captures high-quality brightfield cell images right at your benchtop within minute. Instrument for monitoring cell cultures, either within hood or in cell culture room.
Proper citation: Thermo Fisher: EVOS XL Core Imaging System (RRID:SCR_022190) Copy
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/nircam.html
Instrument aboard the James Webb Space Telescope. It has two major tasks, as imager from 0.6 to 5 micron wavelength, and as wavefront sensor to keep 18-section mirrors functioning as one. Imager covers infrared wavelength range 0.6 to 5 microns. NIRCam detects light from the earliest stars and galaxies in process of formation, population of stars in nearby galaxies, as well as young stars in Milky Way and Kuiper Belt objects. NIRCam is equipped with coronagraphs, instruments that allow astronomers to take pictures of very faint objects around central bright object, like stellar systems.
Proper citation: Near Infrared Camera (RRID:SCR_022113) Copy
https://mass-spec.stanford.edu/instruments
System includes Thermo Orbitrap Eclipse Tribid mass spectrometer and Waters M-Class Acquity nanoUPLC. This platform features sequential acquisition capabilities and multiple fragmentation types, enabling complex, in depth proteomic experiments.
Proper citation: Thermo Fisher: Orbitrap Eclipse nanoLC/MS system (RRID:SCR_022212) Copy
https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/data/olympusmicro/brochures/pdfs/ix71.pdf?rev=EABE
Research inverted system microscope. Olympus IX2 inverted microscope combined with UIS2 optical system. Used for live cell experiments.
Proper citation: Olympus: IX71 Microscope (RRID:SCR_022185) Copy
http://edboyden.org/05.09.boyden.html
Laser tool that enables neurons to be optically silenced by pulses of yellow light, the light-activated chloride pump halorhodopsin (Halo), in a paper entitled Multiple-color optical activation, silencing, and desynchronization of neural activity, with single-spike temporal resolution. Temporally precise, noninvasive control of activity in well-defined neuronal populations is a long-sought goal of systems neuroscience. We adapted for this purpose the naturally occurring algal protein Channelrhodopsin-2, a rapidly gated light-sensitive cation channel, by using lentiviral gene delivery in combination with high-speed optical switching to photostimulate mammalian neurons. We demonstrate reliable, millisecond-timescale control of neuronal spiking, as well as control of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission. This technology allows the use of light to alter neural processing at the level of single spikes and synaptic events, yielding a widely applicable tool for neuroscientists and biomedical engineers. The quest to determine how precise neural activity patterns mediate computation, behavior, and pathology would be greatly aided by a set of tools for reliably activating and inactivating genetically targeted neurons, in a temporally precise and rapidly reversible fashion. Having earlier adapted a light-activated cation channel, 1channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), for allowing neurons to be stimulated by blue light, we searched for a complementary tool that would enable optical neuronal inhibition, driven by light of a second color. Here we report that targeting the 1codon-optimized form of the light-driven chloride pump halorhodopsin from the archaebacterium Natronomas pharaonis (hereafter abbreviated Halo) to genetically-specified neurons enables them to be silenced reliably, and reversibly, by millisecond-timescale pulses of yellow light. We show that trains of yellow and blue light pulses can drive high-fidelity sequences of hyperpolarizations and depolarizations in neurons simultaneously expressing yellow light-driven Halo and blue light-driven ChR2, allowing for the first time manipulations of neural synchrony without perturbation of other parameters such as spiking rates. The Halo/ChR2 system thus constitutes a powerful toolbox for multichannel photoinhibition and photostimulation of virally or transgenically targeted neural circuits without need for exogenous chemicals, enabling systematic analysis and engineering of the brain, and quantitative bioengineering of excitable cells.
Proper citation: Channelrhodopsin-2 enables optical activation of neurons (RRID:SCR_008833) Copy
https://www.rankinbiomed.com/product/refurbished-american-optical-860-sliding-micrtome/
THIS REOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 29,2023. Sliding microtome used for cutting hard objects such as bone, wood, frozen celloidin, and paraffin preparations. Cutting thickness is adjustable from 1 to 40 microns.
Proper citation: American Optical: 860 Sliding Microtome (RRID:SCR_018434) Copy
https://atagousa.corecommerce.com/PAL-10S-p358.html
Digital hand held pocket refractometer that measures urine specific gravity. It has measurement temperature of 10 to 35 C and sample volume of 0.3ml.
Proper citation: Atago: PAL-10S Pocket Refractometer (RRID:SCR_018439) Copy
https://www.sutter.com/manuals/P-2000_OpMan.pdf
Microprocessor controlled, CO2 laser based micropipette puller.Default configuration allows fabrication of micropipettes for intracellular recording, patch clamping, microinjection and microperfusion.Can store up to 100 separate programs, each consisting of up to 8 command lines. The five parameters set in each command line allow exquisite control of the micropipette taper geometry. Allows the use of wide range of glass diameters from 0.125 to 1.2 mm.
Proper citation: Sutter: P-2000 Laser Micropipette Puller (RRID:SCR_018640) Copy
http://www.pstnet.com/hardware.cfm?ID=91
Instrument that accurately gathers participant responses and verifies signals. The Celeritas Series response units are assembled using high-impact, chemical resistant, medical grade plastic. The response units include a tactile indicator to ensure correct finger placement during experiments and comfortably attach to the participant?s wrists. The units communicate button presses through fiber optic cabling which connects to a Fiber Optic Interface Console located in the control room through an available wave guide. The interface console provides real-time feedback of participant responses via LED indicators and includes a set of switches which can be used to make responses for the participant as needed.
Proper citation: Fiber Optic Button Response System (RRID:SCR_009577) Copy
https://www.nitrc.org/projects/lumina/
A reliable patient response system designed specifically for use in an fMRI. Lumina was developed to satisfy the requirements of both the clinical and research fields.
Proper citation: Lumina LP- 400 Response System (RRID:SCR_009596) Copy
Neuronavigation system for use in human cognitive neuroscience (TMS, EEG, NIRS) and for non-human neurosurgical applications.
Proper citation: Brainsight (RRID:SCR_009539) Copy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hBdRU27fsVkioRZb_IY_8BGPwIi_2ipq/view?usp=drivesdk
Automated, high throughput microscale bioreactor system that replicates laboratory scale bioreactor performance., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: Thermo Fisher: Sartorius: Ambr 15 Cell Culture Generation 2 (RRID:SCR_013797) Copy
https://compumedicsneuroscan.com/product/synamps-rt-64-channel-eeg-erp-ep-amplifier/
Equipment that is an EEG signal amplifier for 64-channel montages. It is suitable for recording data from high sampling rate (20,000 Hz) Auditory Brain Stem recordings and Spike Spindles to true DC recordings of CNV and P300.
Proper citation: Neuroscan SynAmps RT 64-channel Amplifier (RRID:SCR_015818) Copy
Equipment that provides physical support for cell cultures. These cell culture inserts feature attachment and suspension cells that can access media from both their apical and basolateral sides.
Proper citation: Sigma: Millicell Cell Culture Inserts (RRID:SCR_015799) Copy
https://www.olympus-lifescience.com/en/microscopes/inverted/ix53/
Equipment that is a microscope for routine inverted microscopic analysis. Its features include pre-centered phase contrast, relief contrast, and UIS2 DIC optics for visualization across all magnifications for both thin and thick specimens.
Proper citation: Olympus IX-53 (RRID:SCR_015801) Copy
https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/4376600
Equipment and software system that is a real-time thermal cycler for intuitive data analysis of polymerase chain reactions. It comes with analysis software, instrument control software, and a LED-based 4-color optical recording feature.
Proper citation: Thermo Fisher: StepOnePlus Real-Time PCR System (RRID:SCR_015805) Copy
http://ced.co.uk/products/power3
Data acquisition interface from Cambridge Electronic Design Limited. Works with Spike2 to provide continuous acquisition tasks. Records waveform data, digital and marker information, and can generate waveform and digital outputs simultaneously for real-time, multi-tasking experiment control.
Proper citation: CED: Power1401 (RRID:SCR_016040) Copy
Hardware that is a electrical pulse generator.
Proper citation: Grass Stimulator Model S88 (RRID:SCR_016192) Copy
http://www.localite.de/en/products/tms-navigator/
An instrument. Navigation system for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
Proper citation: Localite TMS Navigator (RRID:SCR_016126) Copy
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