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This upright widefield microscope is equipped with both color and monochrome cameras, making it suitable for imaging either histology slides or fluorescently labeled samples.
Registered users can access the PVIC online scheduler to reserve and use the Penn Vet Imaging Core instruments.
If you are not already registered, please contact the core manager.
The parasite Leishmania major (promastigote stage; red) is shown here among alternatively activated (M2) macrophages (green) and resident peritoneal macrophages (blue).
These images were taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Nikon E600 fluorescence microscope with a 100x oil immersion lens.
Images are courtesy of Tiffany Weinkopff and Phillip Scott, Dept. of Pathobiology, UPenn School of Veterinary Medicine.
Cross sections of a primary (larger) and multiple secondary (smaller) hair follicles characteristic of compound hair follicles in dogs and cats. This image was taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Nikon E600 microscope with a 10x objective lens.
Sample prepared by the Penn Vet Diagnostic Lab, photo by Gordon Ruthel, description provided by Charles Bradley.
A keratin-filled cyst at the periphery of an infundibular keratinizing acanthoma, a common benign follicular neoplasm in dogs. This image was taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Nikon E600 microscope with a 20x objective lens.
Erythrocytes within a meningeal arteriole of a dog brain. This image was taken on the Penn Vet Imaging Core’s Nikon E600 microscope with a 40x objective lens and DIC optics.