Addition of a Dry Heat Sterilizer in the Cancer Genetics Research Center Animal F

描述(由申请人提供)：佛罗里达大学继续改进和集中其动物资源计划，以提供尽可能好的环境进行科学研究，为实验动物提供高质量的护理，提高效率，并提供安全的工作环境。我们建议在癌症遗传学研究中心(CGRC)动物设施安装干热灭菌器，以提供冗余，并扩大我们在CGRC动物设施处理啮齿动物笼的灭菌能力。这个设施容纳了佛罗里达大学的大部分鼠箱，其中包括集中饲养啮齿动物的设施和我们的转基因核心中饲养的小鼠。选择干热灭菌器的原因如下：(1)成本较低 与蒸汽灭菌器相比，安装时间更短；(2)维护成本更低；(3)增加的热负荷和湿度最小；(4)与蒸汽灭菌器相比，使用的能源更少，并且(5)不需要水。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Florida continues to improve and centralize its animal resource program to provide the best possible environment for scientific inquiry, quality care to laboratory animals, efficiency, and a safe work environment. We propose installing a dry heat sterilizer in the Cancer Genetics Research Center (CGRC) animal facility to provide redundancy and to expand our sterilization capacity for processing rodent cages in CGRC animal facility. This facility houses the majority of the mouse boxes at the University of Florida, which includes mice housed in the centralized rodent breeding facility and our transgenic core. A dry heat sterilizer was selected for the following reasons: (1) Less cost to and time to install than the steam autoclave; (2) less expensive to maintain; (3) minimal heat load and moisture added to the space; and (4) uses less energy and (5) no water when compared to a steam autoclave.