Rodent Phenotyping Core

项目总结 啮齿动物表型核心(RPC)的目标是增加小鼠和大鼠作为 爱荷华大学视觉研究的模型生物。是否提供集中式 表型鉴定的核心将使研究人员将他们的资源集中在科学和 视觉研究的基础发现，而不是培训每个实验室的人员进行 表型鉴定。这种基于核心的服务将产生更一致和更可重现的结果 表型鉴定措施，进而最大限度地发挥NEI资助的研究人员的权力 新的发现。 RPC将有能力对前段进行详细的表型鉴定(Sit- 灯检查和摄影，SD-OCT，房角镜，荧光素血管造影术，以及 眼压记录)和后段(眼底检查/摄影， 视网膜电信号，瞳孔光反射，视觉行为测量，急性抑制 光活动和视动反应的测试)。

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of the Rodent Phenotyping Core (RPC) is to increase the utility of mice and rats as model organisms for vision research at The University of Iowa. The availability of a centralized core for phenotyping will allow investigators to focus their resources on the science and discoveries underlying vision research, rather than on training each lab’s personnel to perform phenotyping. Such core-based services will yield more consistent and reproducible phenotyping measures and in turn maximize the power of NEI-funded investigators to make new discoveries. The RPC will have the capability to perform detailed phenotyping of the anterior segment (slit- lamp examination and photography, SD-OCT, gonioscopy, fluorescein angiography, and intraocular pressure recording) and the posterior segment (fundus examination/photography, electroretinogram, pupil light reflex, behavioral measurements of vision, acute suppression of activity by light, and testing of optokinetic response).