Diagnostic and Experimental Necropsy Laboratory

 J. Mark Cline, DVM, PhD

This laboratory is supervised by Dr. Cline in support of clinical medicine and all researchers at the WFUPC. The necropsy suite has two necropsy rooms (200 sq. ft. each) equipped with stainless steel, down-draft necropsy tables, balances, a large walk-in refrigeration unit, a tissue trimming area (240 sq. ft.) equipped with two trimming tables with exhaust hoods and photographic equipment, cryopreservation equipment, and a storage room (80 sq. ft.) for necropsy supplies. Digital photomicroscopy is used for documentation of lesions, with images stored on the WFUPC server. An additional necropsy laboratory (360 sq. ft.) has a desk and bench space, equipment for tissue processing, two networked IBM computers, photographic archives, and a two-headed Nikon teaching microscope.

An insulated storage building (280 sq. ft.) houses the pathology tissue archives, including wet and paraffin-embedded tissue, and microscopic slides. The laboratory has equipment and expertise available for routine diagnostic necropsy and experimental procedures, including whole-body and regional perfusion. In addition, staff members of this laboratory perform tissue processing as indicated, including gross staining of arteries, and maintain pathology records and tissue archives.

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