ANIMAL RESOURCES DIAGNOSTIC AND INVESTIGATIVE LABORATORY

这项建议的具体目标是：1）继续运作， 扩大诊断实验室的服务，以支持 健康评估、诊断、疾病控制和预防 实验动物; 2）开发和/或应用新的方法， 实验动物疾病的检测和预防， 干扰研究; 3）识别和描述 动物是人类疾病的潜在模型; 4）进行研究 描述实验室感染性和非感染性疾病 动物，阐明发病机理，并开发适当的治疗， 控制和预防方法;以及5）开发和改善 比较医学和病理学教学用动物疾病教材。 我们实现这些目标的方法包括改善我们的医疗保健， 诊断实验室支持计划和扩大研究工作， 比较医学和病理学。 最终，我们的目的是提供 呈现UTHSCD所需的动物护理和支持的全部范围 研究人员用健康的、有特征的动物进行研究 计划并以促进稳定和良好的方式维护它们 存在。

The specific aims of this proposal are: 1) to continue to operate and expand the services of the diagnostic laboratory to support programs of health assessment, diagnosis and control and prevention of diseases of laboratory animals; 2) to develop and/or apply new methods for the detection and prevention of diseases of experimental animals which interfere with research; 3) to recognize and characterize diseases of animals which are potential models of human disease; 4) to conduct research to characterize infectious and noninfectious diseases of laboratory animals, to elucidate pathogenesis, and to develop appropriate treatment, control and prevention methods; and 5) to develop and improve a resource of animal disease material for teaching comparative medicine and pathology. Our methods to accomplish these goals include improving our health care and diagnostic laboratory support programs and expanding research endeavors in comparative medicine and pathology. Ultimately, our purpose is to provide the total spectrum of animal care and support required to present UTHSCD investigators with healthy, characterized animals for their research program and to maintain them in a manner that promotes stability and well being.