{"id":1864,"date":"2017-10-10T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/?page_id=1864"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:47:30","slug":"biochemistry-lab-tissue-preparation-lab-and-light-microscopy-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/about\/facilities\/biochemistry-lab-tissue-preparation-lab-and-light-microscopy-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Lab, Tissue Preparation Lab and Light Microscopy Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These three laboratories are used for a variety of basic physiological and anatomical measurements.&nbsp; The Biochemistry Lab is used to collect, process and analyze blood samples to measure hormones, metabolites, and other blood markers related to health and exercise while the Tissue Preparation and Light Microscopy labs are used to image collected human tissue samples to determine the impact of exercise on the cellular and tissue levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1864]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1273\/BioChem-e1507662241340.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab equipment in these 3 labs include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blood processing equipment<\/strong>:&nbsp; Various pieces of equipment are used to process collected blood samples such as various size centrifuges, tissue incubator &amp; water bath, various scales chemicals and reagents, a vented Hood station, and a -80\u00b0 storage freezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blood \/ Tissue analysis equipment<\/strong>:&nbsp; Various analysis equipment is available such as a spectrophotometer, HemoCue Hemoglobin Analyzer, Hemocrit Analyzer, Lactate Analyzer, pH meter, slide preparation equipment and light microscopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional analysis equipment is available to students for specific research projects via collaborations with URI\u2019s pharmacy, Nutrition, Biology and Chemistry departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These three laboratories are used for a variety of basic physiological and anatomical measurements.&nbsp; The Biochemistry Lab is used to collect, process and analyze blood samples to measure hormones, metabolites, and other blood markers related to health and exercise while the Tissue Preparation and Light Microscopy labs are used to image collected human tissue samples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":0,"parent":2569,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1864","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1864\/revisions\/6210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/kinesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}