University of Liverpool

Contact Info:

Gemma Charlesworth

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/facilities/histology/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_026606

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Relevant Publications:

1.) Smaje D, Zhu X, Hinton JCD, Raval R, Goodacre R, Muhamadali H (2026 Feb 11). Investigating Salmonella biofilm responses to antibiotic treatment using optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy. Communications biology, 9(1), . . PMCID: 13004837.

2.) Altinpinar AE, Alameddine M, Ersoy U, Kanakis I, Pekovic-Vaughan V, Ozanne SE, Goljanek-Whysall K, Vasilaki A (2025 Oct 10). Gestational low-protein diet impairs mitochondrial function and skeletal muscle development by inducing immune responses in male offspring Redox Biology, 87(), 103890. . PMCID: 12550721.

3.) Schulze J, Barnett S, Shaw L, Herrmann A, Poptani H, Rassl DM, Haragan A, Shackcloth M, Sacco JJ, Coulson JM (2025 May 7). Methodology for generating chorioallantoic membrane patient-derived xenograft (CAM-PDX) models of pleural mesothelioma and performing preclinical imaging for the translation of cancer studies and drug screening. F1000Research, 14(), 481. . PMCID: 12188182.

Description:

Facility offers preparation of samples from fresh or fixed tissue through to scanned images. Provides training to prepare and use equipment to embed, section and hand stain tissues as required. Offers three different types of wax for embedding and sectioning as required. Fully equipped for methyl methacrylate and glycol methacrylate embedding and sectioning (including larger samples), freeze microtomy and high throughput slide imaging using our Zeiss Axioscan Z1.