• Device Name: Fluorescence Microscope
• Device model: Lionheart FX
• Made by the company: BioTek USA
• Operator: Samaneh Adibi
• Time of use: all days of the week except holidays
- Description:
- Central Laboratory's fluorescent microscope with the ability to control environmental conditions including temperature regulation and having a wide range of lenses with various magnifications from 4X to 60X allows users to take pictures of different samples. As a fully automatic microscope, the Lionheart FX device benefits from various imaging techniques, including bright field, color bright field, phase contrast, and invert fluorescent. This device provides users with a wide range of different holders, among which it is possible to mention flask, petri dish, and slide holders, while it is possible to use all types of 6-1536 microplates without the need for a holder. The powerful Gen5 software of this device, without the need for a long training course, is a very effective software for researchers with the benefit of various tools such as Movie Making, Annotation, Autofocus, Auto LED Intensity, Autoexposure, Z-Stacking, as well as the ability to analyze images and cell counting. is.
- Some of the important uses of this device are as follows:
• Calcium flux • Live cell imaging
• Translocation • Cell culture QC
• Cytotoxicity • Cell proliferation
• Cell viability • Apoptosis
• Wound healing • 3D cell culture
• Phagocytosis • Tumor invasion
• Slide scanning • Signal transduction
• H & E imaging • Stem cell differentiation