
Seahorse Core
Who We Are
The Seahorse Core Facility operates in the Department of Neurological Sciences on the campus of UNMC. The facility provides expertise and training in use of the Agilent Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer, which has become the gold standard platform for metabolic assays. This platform facilitates simultaneous measurement of the two major energy producing pathways of the cell, mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis, in a multi-well plate, in real time. This fast and sensitive measurement of oxygen consumption rate and extracellular acidification rate is label-free and enables time-resolved analysis in a high-throughput format. The instrument allows automated injection of up to four solutions at user defined time points during the experiment.