Micro-injection system

Micro-injection is one of the techniques to introduce minute amount of substance into live cell/tissue. The Facility is equipped with an Eppondorff micro-injection system mounted on a Zeiss Axiovert 100M fluorescent microscope. It is suitable to inject small amount of substance (e.g., antibody, dye, drug, etc.) into adherent cultured cells. The system is also equipped with a cooled CCD camera (Sensicam) and Metamorph for fluorescence imaging.

Reference: http://www.graduate-studies-in-cancer-research.org/CIF/CIFequip9.htm