CORE C -VETERINARY SERVICES

核心 C - 兽医服务

• 批准号: 7025636
• 负责人: KENNETH D. CAREY
• 金额: $ 62.48万
• 依托单位: TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7025636
• 关键词: animal breeding; animal colony; baboons; biomedical facility; biopsy; diet; nutrition related tag; postmortem; veterinary medicine

The Veterinary Services Core is responsible for maintaining the pedigreed baboon colony, managing the breeding groups, and conducting the experimental procedures using baboons. Colony maintenance includes feeding assigned diets, cleaning cages, observing animals for signs of illness, treating sick animals, and maintaining animal database records. Breeding colony management includes maintaining sire-dam assignments, monitoring dams for pregnancies, recording births in the animal database, and culling unproductive animals from the colony. Experimental procedures include the dual and triple dietary challenges, adiposity measurements by bioimpedance, blood sampling, and biopsy of core adipose tissue. Animal caretakers are responsible for animal maintenance and for experimental diet preparation. Veterinary technicians provide health care and are responsible for experimental procedures.

兽医服务中心负责维护纯种狒狒群体，管理繁殖群体，并进行使用狒狒的实验程序。种群维护包括喂养指定的饲料、清理笼子、观察动物是否有疾病迹象、治疗生病的动物以及维护动物数据库记录。繁殖群体管理包括维持母种分配，监测水坝的怀孕情况，在动物数据库中记录出生情况，以及从 殖民地。实验程序包括双重和三重饮食挑战、通过生物阻抗测量肥胖、采血和对核心脂肪组织进行活组织检查。动物饲养员负责动物的维护和实验饲料的准备。兽医技术人员提供医疗保健，并负责实验程序。