INIA: Mouse Resources Core

描述（由申请人提供）：这是在过去4年多来通过INIA支持产生的许多新小鼠模型中产生的INIA压力的新核心。这些小鼠模型将为INIA研究者研究压力、焦虑和饮酒之间的相互作用提供重要资源。有了这些新资源，我们认为将它们传播给用户，并使用一套与INIA相关的行为分析来评估每种新小鼠模型，以更好地确定它们对INIA压力和酒精研究界以及其他领域的各种研究人员的有用性至关重要。本核心的最后一部分将提供小鼠核心的关键要素：分布、低温保存、基因分型和策展功能，以保持我们对INIA用户可用的小鼠突变体和自交系的库存，并积累和注释关于每个突变体和自交系的行为、细胞和分子知识。该核心的具体目标如下：目标1 -通过enu诱变程序产生的新突变小鼠系的维持和分布。具有异常酒精、应激和/或焦虑表型的新型小鼠突变体的产生和可用性为我们的INIA应激研究人员的多学科研究提供了令人兴奋的资源。核心的这一部分将使这些小鼠系可供INIA和社区范围内的研究人员使用。目的2 -扩展BXD重组自交系（Rl）和B6的维持和分布。一排整齐的老鼠。该INIA极大地扩展了与独特小鼠参考种群相关的表型“空间”（分子，细胞和行为），Core的这一方面将使这些小鼠易于INIA研究人员使用。这包括50条新开发的BXD铁路线路，部分是由印度铁路管理局以前的支持产生的，以及86条进口线路。一条经济线。目标3 -本核心的行为表型部分将提供关于EtOH和应激相关行为的更全面的表型信息，这些基因小鼠模型已被INIA应激联盟的高通量行为筛选鉴定为表现出EtOH和/或应激/焦虑反应的“极端”表型。目标4 -附属功能，包括在核心中管理小鼠系，冷冻保存，数据库管理，基因分型和信息传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new core to INIA stress that arises out of the generation of many new mouse models through INIA support over the last 4+ years. These mouse models will be important resources to INIA investigators to study the interplay between stress, anxiety and alcohol consumption. With these new resources, we feel it is critical to disseminate them to users and evaluate each of these new mouse models with a set of INIA relevant behavioral analyses to better identify their usefulness to the various researchers in INIA stress and to the alcohol research community and beyond. The final part of this Core will provide key elements to a mouse core: distribution, cryopreservation, genotyping, and a curatorial function to keep an inventory of mouse mutants and inbred lines that we have available to INIA users and to accumulate and annotate the behavioral, cellular, and molecular knowledge about each mutant and inbred line. The specific aims of this Core are as follows: Aim 1 - The maintenance and distribution of novel mutant lines of mice produced by the ENU-mutagenesis program. The production and availability of novel mouse mutants that have abnormal alcohol, stress, and/or anxiety phenotypes represent an exciting resource for multi-disciplinary studies by our INIA stress investigators. This part of the Core will make these lines of mice available to INIA and community-wide researchers. Aim 2 - The maintenance and distribution of the expanded BXD recombinant inbred (Rl) and B6.A consomic lines of mice. This INIA has greatly expanded the phenotypic "space" (molecular, cellular, and behavioral) associated with unique mouse reference populations and this aspect of the Core will make these mice readily available to INIA researchers. This includes the 50 newly developed BXD Rl lines that arose, in part, from the previous INIA support, and the importation of 86.A consomic lines. Aim 3 - The Behavioral Phenotyping component of this Core will provide more comprehensive phenotypic information about EtOH and stress related behaviors in unique genetic mouse models that have been identified by high throughput behavioral screening within the INIA stress Consortium as exhibiting "extreme" phenotypes for EtOH and/or stress/anxiety responsiveness. Aim 4 - Affiliated functions that include curation of mouse lines in the Core, cryopreservation, database management, genotyping, and dissemination of information.