NVCI Histology Lab

Providing histology services to the research community

Mission: The Nonprofit Histology Core Facility serves as a support core facility for the research community in the State of Nevada.

Partial support for this facility is provided by the Nevada IDEA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) award from the NCRR. Users of our services should cite 2 P20 RR016463 in all publications and grant proposals. We offer a 50% an additional discount to investigators in INBRE.

Under the direction of Yupo Ma M.D., M.S., Ph.D. and Louis Fink M.D., we offer histology services such as paraffin embedding tissue into blocks, cutting/sectioning of blocks, H&E and special staining, Frozen Sections, Immunohistochemisty staining, double staining, In-situ hybridization, generation of tissue arrays as well as high quality digital capturing of microscopic images.

Double IHC stain of bone marrow. Red staining is CD31 and brown is HAM56.
CD34+ cells(brown) & Ki67+ cells (red in nuclei). Mast cells (blue nucleus with pink granular cytoplasm) in an infantile hemangioma.
In-Situ Hybridization Staining of Kappa cells(blue) in bone marrow.
Tissue Array Block created at NVCI histology lab.