CENTRALIZING NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH ANIMAL RESOURCES

该项目的总体目标是提高大学的 加州在旧金山弗朗西斯科（UCSF）动物资源。 UCSF短期 和长期目标，以改善动物护理或服务的教师。 这 项目符合两者。 该项目将提供动物资源， 进行神经科学研究的实验室， 医学院院长作为三个主要领域之一， 在未来五年内在UCSF的发展。 这些科学家进行基本的 研究了解脑细胞群如何协同工作， 行为 他们已经开发出动物模型来研究诸如 疼痛、视觉、学习和记忆、躯体感觉和感觉控制 的运动。 他们在哺乳动物身上进行实验， 就像人类的大脑一样。 物种包括猴子，猫，雪貂， 还有老鼠 该项目将翻新和装备动物收容室和一个外科手术室。 可用于无菌生存程序套件。 这将改善 将动物放在实验室和办公室附近， 使用它们的研究人员，减少他们与潜在的 通过消除目前需要将它们大规模移动， 通过公共走廊的距离，并改善他们的心理健康- 通过提供改进的笼子和减少陌生人的数量， 他们相遇。 需要新的手术室，以便神经科学系能够进行 一些目前不可能的研究， 确保他们能够进入适合他们生存手术的设施 程序. 生存手术是研究的一个关键因素， 整合神经科学 新的手术室将提供最佳的设施 神经科学系将优先进行 最优条件下的生存程序。

The general objective of this project is to upgrade the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) animal resource. UCSF has short term and long term goals to improve animal care or services to faculty. This project fits in with both. The project will provide an animal resource for laboratories that conduct neuroscience research, which has been identified by the Dean of the School of Medicine as one of three major areas for development at UCSF in the next five years. These scientists conduct basic research to understand how groups of brain cells work together to generate behavior. They have developed animal models for studying phenomena such as pain, vision, learning and memory, somatic sensation, and sensory control of movement. They conduct experiments on mammals whose brains are organized like the human brain. Species include monkeys, cats, ferrets, and rats. The project will renovate and equip animal holding rooms and a surgical suite that can be used for aseptic survival procedures. This will improve the care of the animals by placing them near the laboratories and offices of the researchers who use them, reducing their contact with potentially infectious agents by eliminating the current need to move them large distances through public corridors, and improving their psychological well- being by providing improved caging and by reducing the number of strangers they encounter. The new surgical suite is required so that neuroscience faculty can conduct some research that is currently not possible and so that they can be ensured access to a facility that is appropriate for their survival surgery procedures. Survival surgery is a critical element of research in integrative neuroscience. The new surgery will provide an optimal facility in which neuroscience faculty will have the first priority to conduct survival procedures under procedures under optimal conditions.