Functional and Efficiency Upgrades for the Carlson Cage Wash Facility

卡尔森笼式清洗设施的功能和效率升级

• 批准号: 8710955
• 负责人: George Parsons Langan
• 金额: $ 47.17万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-25 至 2015-06-24
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8710955
• 关键词: Address; Animal Experimentation; Animal Housing; Animals; Biomedical Research; Caring; Censuses; Chicago; Equipment; Funding; Housing; Institutes; Laboratory Animal Production and Facilities; Mus; Neurosciences; Research; Rodent; Universities; animal care; animal facility; improved; operation; programs; repaired; research study

Summary: The University of Chicago animal research program has grown considerably in the last 10 years. The University has kept up with the growing animal census by renovating animal facilities and incorporating vivaria into three new research buildings. These new research buildings have significantly improved the quality of research and animal space available at The University. The Carlson Animal Research Facility is the largest and most significant facility on campus in that it supports the most diverse biomedical research studies. Carlson provides a significant proportion of the mouse barrier housing, biosafety (ABSL2) housing, and procedural space for rodents. It also provides non- rodent housing and is the only facility able to house large animal species. The Carlson facility is critical to the animal care program. Several renovations have been completed in Carlson to add and improve housing and research space in the last 10 years and the Carlson Facility is again preparing to expand animal housing capacity to support the University's new Neurosciences Institute. The function of the cage wash operation however needs to be addressed as part of this renovation. We propose to address this by replacing the washing equipment in the Carlson cage wash with newer more efficient machines. We have already initiated the replacement of the Carlson rack washer and with the funding of this proposal we will replace the existing tunnel washer. These two pieces of equipment have major repair issues and decrease the efficiency of the cage wash operation. Their replacement will significantly improve the operational efficiency of the facility, which will have a significant impact on our ability to provide high quality and efficient animal care.

总结： 芝加哥大学的动物研究项目在过去的几年里有了很大的发展。 10年该大学通过翻新 动物设施，并将动物园纳入三个新的研究大楼。这些新 研究建筑显著提高了研究和动物空间的质量 可在大学。卡尔森动物研究机构是世界上最大的， 校园里最重要的设施，因为它支持最多样化的生物医学 调查研究。卡尔森提供了很大一部分的老鼠屏障住房， 生物安全（ABSL 2）住房和啮齿动物的程序空间。它还提供非- 啮齿动物住房，是唯一能够容纳大型动物物种的设施。卡尔森 这对动物护理计划至关重要。已经完成了几次翻修 在卡尔森增加和改善住房和研究空间在过去10年和 卡尔森工厂再次准备扩大动物饲养能力，以支持 大学新的神经科学研究所。笼清洗操作的功能 但是，需要作为这次翻新的一部分加以解决。我们建议解决这个问题 将卡尔森笼式洗涤机中的洗涤设备更换为更新的更高效的 机械.我们已经开始更换卡尔森洗衣架机， 我们会利用这项建议的拨款，更换现有的隧道式洗车机。这两 设备部件存在重大维修问题，并降低了笼的效率 清洗操作。更换这些人员将大大提高 该设施，这将对我们提供高质量和 有效的动物护理。