We have listed here links to other sites which may be of interest to our visitors. We do our best to keep all links valid, but if you find any errors or you would like Cairn to include a link to your web page here then please email the webmaster.

Cairn has at some stage had reason to deal with most of the individuals and companies on this list (and can even recommend some of them). If you would like a quote, information or specific recommendation then please email our sales department.

Companies we represent Companies that represent us Sites of special scientific interest Other related companies Universities around the world Academic societies Useful reference searches Incidental interest and nepotism

We are approved distributors for :

• Chroma. - specialist optical filters and dichroic mirrors
• IonOptix Inc. - fluorescence hardware and software and cell edge tracking systems
• Red Shirt Imaging. - fast imaging hardware and software
• Scion Corp. - frame grabbers with comprehensive free software
• Universal Imaging Corp. - imaging software

and also supply and approve of equipment from many other companies including:

• Cohu - General purpose CCD cameras
• Electron Tubes Ltd. - Photomultiplier tubes
• Hamamatsu Photonics UK - Photomultiplier tubes, Photon counting heads, Integrating CCD cameras
• Leica. - Fluoresence microscopes
• Linos Photonics - Anti-vibration tables
• Nikon. - Fluorescence microscopes
• Olympus UK. - Fluorescence microscopes
• Universal Imaging Corporation Limited - Digital and Intensified CCD cameras, Imaging Software
• Zeiss. - Fluorescence microscopes
• Kinetic Imaging - Imaging Software

Note: Some distribution agreements are subject to geographical or product restrictions - please check with us for details.

Although we usually sell direct you can also buy Cairn equipment from:

• Comtek Optics & Spectroscopy Instruments - Indian distributors
• Dong Wuk C&I - official South Korean distributors for our full product range
• IonOptix Corp. - we sell their stuff they sell ours - simple 
• Pacisa & Giralt - imaging specialists in Spain
• Universal Imaging Corp. - suppliers of the popular MetaFluor / MetaMorph software
• Universal Imaging Ltd. - imaging specialists in the UK
• Visitron - imaging specialists in Germany

Sites of special scientific interest

• Dempster, Dr John - Strathclyde public domain electrophysiology software.
• Mammano, Dr Fabio - Home Page. - tour of the inner ear's machinery and fast imaging application.
• NIH Image. - freeware MAC imaging software.
• ImageJ - freeware java imaging software which works with our monochromator
• MBL Summer courses, Woods Hole - highly respected courses for which we provide equipment
• Plymouth Microelectrode Techniques Course. - The renowned electrophysiology training course - great fun & we teach there
• Smith, Dr Pete - Home Page - freeware, patch clamp & calcium software
• Winegar, Bruce - Bruce's Patch Clamp Resources. - patch clamp techniques

Companies

• Axon Instruments Inc. - patch clamps, electrophysiology software & formerly imaging systems
• Electron Tubes Ltd. - photomultiplier tubes.
• Heka Elektronik. - patch clamp amplifiers, pipette pullers and related software.
• Image Hopper. - imaging software.
• InstruTECH. - imaging acquisition hardware/systems.
• Kinetic Imaging. imaging software and hardware.
• Molecular Probes Inc. - fluorescence indicators.
• Olympus America. - microscopes.
• Saxon Engineering - high quality precision machining
• Solid Edge - cool 3D CAD software
• Sutter Instruments. - pipette pullers and optical instruments.
• Vutrax. - electronic CAD as used and recommended by Cairn.

Universities and similar institutions

Europe

• Biomedical Sciences, Aberdeen, UK
• BBSRC, UK
• MedWeb at University of Birmingham, UK
• University of Bristol, UK
• University of Dundee, UK
• University of Glasgow, UK
• University of Keele, UK
• University of Leeds, UK
• University of Leicester, UK
• Division of Vascular Medicine at Leicester University
• Department of Clinical Dental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
• Kings College London, UK
• Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary‘s, London, UK
• UMDS, London, UK
• UCL & RFHSM, London, UK
• University of Nottingham, UK
• University of Oxford, UK
• Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sheffield University. UK
• University of Sunderland, UK
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
• Department of General & Comparative Physiology, University of Vienna, Austria
• Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium
• Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
• University of Aarhus, Denmark
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• University College Dublin, Ireland
• Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
• Institut fur Physiologie, Aachen, Germany
• University of Kiel, Germany
• II. Physiologisches Institut, Homburg/Saar, Germany
• Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany
• Institut für Physiologie, Münster, Germany
• Università di Milano, Italy
• International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), biophysics sector, Trieste, Italy
• University of Parma, Italy
• University of Murcia , Spain
• Goteborg University, Sweden
• Capillary Physiology, Goteborg University, Sweden
• Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• University of Bern, Switzerland
• University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Africa

• University of the Witwatersrand

Americas

• University of Alberta
• Auburn University
• University of Arizona and Instructional Material there.
• Boston University
• Medical University of South Carolina
• University of Chicago Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
• University of Connecticut
• School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
• The Physiology Graduate Group at University of California, Davis
• Cornell University
• East Carolina University
• University of California, San Diego
• University of Cincinnati
• North Dakota
• University of South Florida
• University of Hawaii Pacific Biomedical Research Center
• University of Illinois
• Southern Illinois University
• Physiological Imaging, Radiology, University of Iowa
• University of Kansas
• Loyola University
• Washington University at St. Louis
• University of Miami
• University of Minnesota
• University of Missouri
• University of Manitoba
• National University of Mexico
• McGill University
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Northwestern University
• New York University
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• New Jersey Medical School
• Department of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine
• Medical College of Ohio
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Pennsylvania
• Purdue University
• Temple University
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• University of Vermont
• Space Physiology at Vanderbilt University
• University of Virginia
• Dept of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University
• University of Washington
• Wayne State University

Australia

• University of Sydney
• University of Queensland
• University of New England
• University of Melbourne
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• University of Western Australia

Asia

• Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
• Health One, National University of Singapore
• Mie University, Mie, Japan

Academic Societies

• The Physiological Society
• Swiss Physiological Society
• American Physiological Society
• German Physiological Society
• The British Pharmacological Society
• The Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Research Defence Society
• The Biophysical Society
• The Biochemical Society
• The Institute of Biology
• Society for Experimental Biology
• Brain Research Association
• British Society for Developmental Biology
• British Biophysical Society
• Society for Neuroscience
• Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
• Australian & New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• United States National Committee for the International Union of Physiological Sciences
• American Physiological Society APStracts
• International Conference on Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
• The Nobel Foundation
• Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
• Medical Research Council
• National Institutes of Health
• The National Library of Medicine
• The Society for In Vitro Biology
• Society of General Physiologists
• British Microcirculation Society
• Journal of Neuroscience.

Useful reference searching

• Google - we love it!
• Search the WWW using Alta Vista
• WebScout
• Search the WWW using Lycos at Carnegie-Mellon
• Restricted MEDLINE search at NCBI
• Dictionaries at Iowa State
• BUBL Bibliographic and Library information at Bath University
• Neuroscience Web Search
• Virtual Library. Neuroscience.
• Virtual Library. Physiology.
• Yahoo Biology Page.

Incidental interest and nepotism

If you would like Cairn to place your URL in this section then please email Wilber the tea boy with a proposal of marriage.

• Faversham More about our town.
• The Granary Jims Mothers B&B.;
• Rubber stamps. Andys Father.
• Hill family down under. Andys Uncle.
• Phosphor Technology. Andys Grandfather.
• Levy Hill Labs. Andys Grandfather again.

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