CORE--VETERINARY SERVICES

兽医服务核心负责维护纯种狒狒群体，管理繁殖群体，并使用狒狒进行实验程序。菌落维护包括喂养指定的饲料，清洁笼子，观察动物的疾病迹象，治疗生病的动物，并维护动物数据库记录。繁殖群体管理包括维持母坝分配，监测大坝的怀孕情况，在动物数据库中记录出生情况，以及从母坝中剔除非生产性动物

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.