Facilities

Facilities for research and graduate programs in the department are excellent and the laboratories are very well equipped with modern research equipment and computers. Numerous state-of-the-art techniques are in current use including:

• laser capture microscopy for single cell analysis
• confocal microscopy
• RT-PCR differential display
• voltage and patch clamp of single cardiac cells
• biological modelling of cardiac arrhythmias
• intracellular electrical recording in nerve and cardiac tissues
• videomicroscopic monitoring of cardiac cell contraction
• radioligand binding
• in situ hybridization
• immunohistochemistry
• high performance liquid chromatography
• mammalian cell culture
• chemiluminescence
• subcellular fractionation
• microinjection of drugs in brain and spinal column
• molecular biology
• drug analysis
• radioimmunoassay
• receptor techniques