Experimental traumatic brain injury facility: includes pendulum based fluid percussion injury device-FP302 (AmScien Instruments, Richmond, VA) including automatic pressure measurement unit and software, an in vitro cell injury device called ‘cell injury controller II’ (Custom design and fabrication Inc., Sandstom, VA), and a rodent surgery setup (Stereotactic).

 

Animal behavioral suite: includes a rotarod (Digital rotarod, SPW industrial, Lauguan Hills, CA), grid walk apparatus (Columbus Instruments, Columbus, OH), balance beam (Maze Engineers, Glenview, IL), Water-maze, dark-light test apparatus (Maze Engineers, Glenview, IL), cylinder for cylinder test, and animal limb grip strength analysis (inverted screen test) apparatus and climb test apparatus.

 

Molecular Biology and protein analysis facility: includes Real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystems), a thermocycler (Applied Biosystems), Syngene gel documentation system built in touchscreen PC (Frederick, MD), multifunctional microplate reader (Promega), electrophoretic apparatus, a turbo-blot transfer system (Bio-rad), RNAScope facility.

 

Cell culture facility: includes a separate laminar flow hood measuring 6 ft, a chamber tissue culture incubator, inverted microscope, sonicator, and a refrigerated Eppendorf centrifuge, a refrigerated Beckman centrifuge. 

 

Other facilities: include a cryostat (for histology; NX50, Fisher Scientific),   Leica cryostat, Vibratome (Leica), a laser-Doppler flowmeter (for analyzing cerebral blood flow; PeriFlux System 5000 LDPM, Perimed), -20oC and -80oC freezers, liquid nitrogen facility, water purification unit (MilliQ), centrifuges including ultracentrifuge, a bright field phase contrast microscope, microwave oven, orbit shaker, vortexes, pH meter, E. coli incubator etc.