Pathology Monitoring of Aged Rodent Colonies

该合同规定对NIA老龄啮齿动物群进行独立的健康监测。该独立健康监测涵盖四个啮齿动物群体：老年小鼠群体、老年大鼠群体、老年杂交大鼠群体和热量限制群体。项目干事定期指示殖民地承包商将动物送至独立健康监测承包商进行血清学、细菌学和病理学分析。这些结果将报告给项目官员，并协助项目官员保持啮齿动物群落的完整性。

This contract provides for independent health monitoring of the NIA aged rodent colonies. There are four rodent colonies covered under this independent health monitoring ¿ aged mouse colony, aged rat colony, aged hybrid rat colony, and caloric restricted colony. The Project Officer periodically directs the colony contractor to send animals to the independent health monitoring contractor for serological, bacteriological and pathological analysis. Those results are reported back to the Project Officer and assist the Project Officer in maintaining the integrity of the rodent colonies.