CORE--VETERINARY SERVICES

兽医服务中心负责维护纯种狒狒群，管理繁殖组，并使用狒狒进行实验程序。群体维护包括饲喂指定的饲料、清洁笼舍、观察动物的疾病体征、治疗患病动物和维护动物数据库记录。繁殖群体管理包括维持母畜分配，监测母畜怀孕情况，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，血液采样和核心脂肪组织活检。动物管理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。

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.