Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium - Cell Analysis/Immunology Core

The Cell Analysis & Immunology Core Facility is a customer oriented service dedicated to supporting the research needs of LCRC investigators. It provides state-of-art instrumentation and expertise for addressing experimental issues related to single cells, nuclei and chromosomes. In addition to the most powerful cell sorter BD FACSAria, the Facility owns advanced analyzers such as BD LSRII and BD FACSArray. The Core is able to sort human as well as animal cells under aseptic condition at high speed with high purity and yield. BD LSRII is suitable for (not limited to) immunophenotyping, intracellular cytokine and signaling pathway study, cell cycle determination and apoptosis detection by several different ways. BD FASArray provides an easy, fast way to detect cell-secreting proteins or intracellular proteins with high-sensitivity without limitation of sample volumes. Additional capabilities include an Auto MACS cell sorter, a BioRad Bio-plex system, an AID Elispot reader and a Luminoscan. The auto MACS separator is a computer controlled magnetic cell sorter for isolation of virtually any cell type.