Instruments used in medical laboratories

Instruments used in general in laboratories, including:

• Biochemistry
• Microbiology
• Pathology
• Pharmacology ........are as follows:

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Instrument list

Instrument	Uses
Test tube	video link
Folin-Wu tube for blood glucose determination || used in Folin and Wu's method of non-enzymatic estimation of blood glucose.
Glass slide and cover slips	in microscopy, serology, etc. as the solid backing on which test samples are taken.
Petri dish	used for preparation of culture media, and culture of organisms there in.
A glass beaker	reagent storage
A glass flask	gastric acid, or other fluid titration
Pasteur pipette	for aspiration and addition of reagents
Graduated pipettes	for aspiration and addition of reagents, often of minuscule amounts of the material. Used mainly in colorimetry.
Syringes and needles	vide link
Disposable gloves	prevention of transmission of diseases (as long a not cut or perforated) to or from the user.
Tourniquet	used to cause an artificial venous stasis by applying pressure through this rubber tube. It leads to engorgement of the veins allowing them to be seen better. Used for intravenous injections and cannulation.
Microscope	used for visualising minute structures including microbes.
Bunsen burner or spirit lamps or candles	source of fire / heat
Ultracentrifuge	used to separate particles dispersed in a liquid according to their molecular mass
Electrophoresis apparatus	used to detect and classify [[serum proteins]] or proteins from any other source. Also used for DNA separation.
Chromatography:	vide links for details
•Gas Chromatography or Gas Liquid Chromatography(GLC)	-do-
•Planar Chromatography	-do-
•Paper Chromatography	-do-
•Thin layer chromatography	-do-
•Affinity chromatography	-do-
•Ion exchange chromatography	-do-
•Size exclusion chromatography	-do-
•Countercurrent chromatography	-do-
•Countercurrent chromatography	-do-
•Hematology analyzer	-do-
•Semiauto analyzer	-do-
•reflotron	-do-
Setup for Radioimmunoassay or RIA	previously it was widely used to detect various things in bold fluids like proteins (natural, infective, those produced by the body in reaction to disease, cancer related), tumor markers, hormones, viruses (hepatitis, HIV, etc.), etc.
Setup for Enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA)	presently it is widely used to detect various things in bold fluids like proteins (natural, infective, those produced by the body in reaction to disease, cancer related), tumor markers, hormones, viruses (hepatitis, HIV, etc.), etc. It has replaced RIA
Colorimeter	used in photochemical analysis and quantitative estimation of substances ranging from [[blood sugar]], to creatinine, hemoglobin, etc.
Burette	used to measure amount of the acid / alkali used in titration
General laboratory stands, racks, filter paper, reagents, etc.
Induction coils	as a source of high voltage electricity
Cathode ray oscilloscope	vide link
Recording Kymograph	historically, used in or human animal experiments to measure and record data.
Long extension kymograph	historically, used in or human animal experiments to measure and record data.
Surface Plasmon Resonance	Label free detection of molecule binding. Used to determine kinetic constants of the interaction(ka, kd, KD). Can also be used for thermodynamic analysis.

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  Test tubes in racks

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  Beaker

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  Burette

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  A Cuvette of a colorimeter

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  Petri dish

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  A set of micropipettes

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  Dispensable pipettes

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  Glass Pasteur pipettes with teats

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  Flasks

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  Colorimeter (Spectrophotometer)

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  Microtiter plates

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  Antique light microscope

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  Gel electrophoresis apparatus

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  High-speed centrifuge

• Beckman-Coulter ultracentrifuge XL-100K -01.jpg

  Ultracentrifuge

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  Gaschromatograph