Facilities & Resources

Behavioral Paradigms

Operant Conditioning

• Food Self Administration
  
• IV Drug Self Administration
  
• Alcohol Self Administration

• Simultaneous Operant Conditioning & Microdialysis

Operant Conditioning (lickometer)

• Alcohol Self Administration
  
• Taste Aversion
  
• Gustatory discrimination & learning

  Conditioned Place Preference

• Drug associated place preference

Locomotor Activity

• Minimitter Optical Beam

• Coulbourn Truscan

Porsolt Forced Swim Test

Surgery

Surgery / In-vivo gene transfer

• Stereotaxic, Microsurgery

• Gas Anesthesia & Perfusion One System

Genotyping

Genotyping of Transgenic Mouse Breeding Colony

• PCR genotyping station

Histology Suite

• Cryostat
  
• Microtome
  
• Paraffin Embedding Station
  
• Immunohistochemistry station

Imaging

microPET imaging Suite

• MicroPET Imaging Suite
  
• Cyclotron
  
• PMOD software for microPET data analysis

9.4T microMRI & 4T MRI Imaging Suite

• Amira/ResolveRT software for MRI data analysis

  
  microCT Imaging Suite

• Skyscan 1076 microCT (7 micron resolution)

  Autoradiography - ß-Imager

• ß-Imager Room

• Radioligand binding lab

• Whole-body Cryotome

Light Microscopy

• Densitometry, Cell Counting
  

Brookhaven National Lab
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631)344-8000

One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE’s Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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