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University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pancreatic Islet Cell Biology Core Facility

University of Pennsylvania

United States of America

https://www.med.upenn.edu/idom/drc/cores/cellbio.html

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Primary Contact:

Doris Stoffers

Last Updated: 06/15/2022

Facility RRID

RRID:SCR_022411

Facility Details

Provides support including experimental design, islet isolation, and performance of and/or training in range of assays for physiological, metabolic, and morphometric assessment of pancreatic islets as wells as many other tissues and cell types. Offers islet isolation and culture, free intracellular calcium ion measurements, quantitative oxygen consumption of pancreatic islets, electrode based closed cell respirometry, and access to Agilent’s  Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer XFe96.