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The Fiocruz Rondônia Bioprospecting Platform offers 23 specialized services in the preparation, analysis, and purification of bioactives. Services include fractionation and isolation of biomolecules using different liquid chromatography techniques, characterization of the isoelectric point and determination of the molecular mass of protein samples, determination of the partial sequence of amino acid residues from the N-terminal region of purified proteins, and screening of in vitro molecular interactions between ligands of recombinant origin and analytes using the surface plasmon resonance technique, as well as determination of ligand/analyte interaction constants.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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The Flow Cytometry Platform (RPT08I) offers immunophenotyping acquisition and analysis services; quantification of intracellular cytokines and cell supernatants, cultures, plasma and serum; cellular dermatology assays. The Platform currently has four cytometers, the CytoFLEX S (17 cores/19 parameters), Accuri C6 Plus (4 cores/6 parameters), FACSCelesta (12 cores/14 parameters) and FACSCan (5 cores/7 parameters). The Platform makes FCAP Array and FlowJo software available to users for analyzing results.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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Fiocruz Rondônia’s Real Time PCR Platform has high-performance equipment and offers the entire scientific community the possibility of carrying out qualitative and/or quantitative reactions, in addition to evaluating gene expression. The platform also offers guidance on handling equipment and interpreting results with the aim of training qualified labor in the region.
Models: Sistema de PCR em Tempo Real 7500/Marca: Applied Biosystems™ and Sistema de PCR em Tempo Real QuantStudio™ 3/Marca: Applied Biosystems™
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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The Seq Studio Genetic Analyzer capillary sequencer can sequence fragments of up to 800bp. The capillary sequencing platform offers the ready plate reading service, where the user sends their already sequenced and purified samples only for reading on the equipment (capillary electrophoresis), and also the complete sequencing reaction service, where the user sends only the primers and their purified samples and the platform performs the entire sequencing and reading reaction on the equipment.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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The Fiocruz Rondônia Microscopy Platform features modern equipment for imaging materials or live biological samples, such as intravital, in vitro, or ex vivo microscopy with fresh or fixed and stained histological sections (including immunofluorescence). These can be analyzed using the available equipment: Nikon Eclipse Ti Confocal Microscope, Nikon Eclipse 80i Fluorescence Microscope, Nikon ECLIPSE Ni-E Brightfield Microscope, and Nikon SMZ18 Stereomicroscope.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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In vitro antiparasitic tests of natural compounds/extracts against promastigote forms of Leishmania spp. and asexual forms of Plasmodium falciparum W2. Cytotoxicity testing is also offered with cells of the J774 lineage (murine macrophages) and HepG2 (derived from a human hepatoma). All of these techniques are based on the use of fluorescence or absorbance detectors in plates of 96 or more wells, allowing the acquisition, automated analysis and determination of growth inhibition for 50% of the parasite population (IC50) and determination of the cytotoxic concentration for 50 % of cells (CC50), after treatment of each concentration of tested compounds.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rondônia.
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The FACSymphony A1 anAnalyzing Cytometer can simultaneously detect 18 parameters, incluing cell size and complexity and 16 different fluorescence. It also has the ability to detect microparticle assays (90nm to 500nm). The equipment has four lasers: • Violet (405nm) Filters: 450/50, 525/50, 610/20, 670/30, 710/50 and 780/60 • Blue (488nm) Filters: 530/30 and 710/ 50 • Yellow-green (561nm) Filters: 586/15, 610/20, 670/30, 710/50 and 780/60 • Red (637nm) Filters: 670/30, 710/50 and 780/60.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – SP (Ribeirão Preto).
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The Microscopy and Image Microanalysis Platform (RPT07E) of the Rene Rachou Institute/FIOCRUZ-Minas includes the following equipment in its infrastructure: an IVIS® Lumina XRMS Series III (Revvity), an Aperio Versa 8 slide scanner (Leica Biosystems), a C2+ Confocal Microscopy (Nikon), and an Axio Observer A.1 Fluorescence Microscopy (Zeiss). Since its implementation, the facility has served institutional research groups, as well as from state and federal research and teaching institutions. Image acquisition and processing, with or without operator assistance, as well as training in the use of equipment can be requested. More details of services can be seen below:
IVIS® Lumina XRMS Series III (Revvity)
P05-031A : Use of equipment with operator (Image acquisition with operator assistance)
P05-031B : Use of equipment without operator (Image acquisition without operator assistance)
P05-031C : Image analysis and processing
P05-031D : Training (Training in the use of equipment)
C2+ Confocal Microscopy (Nikon)
P05-008A : Use of equipment with operator (Image acquisition with operator assistance)
P05-008B : Use of equipment without operator (Image acquisition without operator assistance)
P05-008C : Image analysis and processing
P05-008D : Training (Training in the use of equipment)
Axio Observer A.1 Fluorescence Microscopy (Zeiss)
P05-027A : Image analysis and processing
P05-027B : Use of equipment with operator (Image acquisition with operator assistance)
P05-027C : Use of equipment without operator (Image acquisition without operator assistance)
P05-027D : Training (Training in the use of equipment)
Aperio Versa 8 slide scanner (Leica Biosystems)
P05-030A : Use of equipment (brightfield) with operator (Brightfield image acquisition with operator assistance)
P05-030B : Use of equipment (brightfield) without operator (Brightfield image acquisition without operator assistance)
P05-030C : Use of equipment (fluorescence) with operator (Fluorescence image acquisition with operator assistance)
P05-030D : Use of equipment (fluorescence) without operator (Fluorescence image acquisition without operator assistance)
P05-030E : Training (Training in the use of equipment)
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rio de Janeiro (IOC).
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Real-time PCR system, for Fast 96 and 384 wells plates. Performs presence and absence assays, absolute quantification, relative quantification and genotyping using allele-specific TaqMan probes.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rio de Janeiro (IOC).
Fiocruz’s Network Technological Platforms.
Real-time PCR system, for Fast 96, 384 wells plates and TaqMan Arrays (TLDA). Performs presence and absence assays, absolute quantification, relative quantification, genotyping using allele-specific TaqMan probes and High Resolution Melting (HRM). Performs TaqMan arrays, which are ideal for medium-to-high throughput validation and profiling studies in cancer, stem cells, inflammation, or infectious diseases. These cards can be used to validate tens or hundreds of initial hits generated from microarrays or next-generation sequencing, or screening biomarkers and toxicology panels or analyzing pathways, target classes, and complete disease sets.
This platform is located in FIOCRUZ – Rio de Janeiro (IOC).