Animal Services

动物服务

• 批准号: 10017245
• 负责人: Jeffrey D Schall
• 金额: $ 6.57万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017245
• 关键词: Anesthesia procedures; Animal Technicians; Animals; Behavior; Brain region; Breeding; Catheters; Core Grant; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Ensure; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Fluid Therapy; Funding; Galago Genus; Gases; Grant; Histology; Human Resources; IACUC; Individual; Intratracheal Intubation; Investigation; Laboratories; Longitudinal Studies; Maintenance; Operating Rooms; Operative Surgical Procedures; Perception; Physiology; Procedures; Progress Reports; Prosimii; Psychology; Publications; Recovery; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Schedule; Scholarship; Scientist; Services; Sterilization; Structure; Surveys; Training; Training and Education; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Vision research; Visual; Visual Pathways; animal care; career; cognitive system; cohort; cost; experience; innovation; instrument; instrumentation; interest; member; nonhuman primate; skills; web page

PROJECT SUMMARY: ANIMAL SERVICES MODULE The Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (VVRC) includes faculty investigators with strong interest in discerning relationships between visual circuits and behavior, between cortical structures and physiology, and between brain regions and perception/behavior in non-human primate and prosimian species. These cognitive- and systems-level investigations require access to expert veterinary husbandry and surgical skills, especially for longitudinal studies requiring use of the same animal cohort over many months. The purpose of the VVRC Instrumentation Module is to provide a comprehensive veterinary service for support of vision research using non-human primates that is not covered by staff members supported by individual grants. This module is a VVRC-intrinsic core, housed in Wilson Hall and administered through the Department of Psychology, and is not part of a VUMC institutional facility; therefore, the service is provided to VVRC members by request and not through the VUMC Office of Research scholarship platform. In the current funding period the animal module contributed resources in support of 11 investigators with 55 publications resulting from use of the service. These are indicated as such in our Progress Report Core Publications by Investigator document. Availability of this module during the current period saved VVRC investigators over $240,905 in veterinary technician and facility costs that otherwise would have to be obtained elsewhere. A survey of researcher plans indicates that the use of this service will increase, with moderate to extensive use by 14 of 36 VVRC investigators. The Animal Services Module, housed in Wilson Hall near primary users, is directed by VVRC Investigator Jeff Schall, PhD. Using this space and personnel supported by this Core mechanism, the VVRC Animal Services Module will: (1) provide expert assistance with nonhuman primate surgical procedures, (2) provide training on best, aseptic, nonhuman primate surgical practices, and (3) support breeding of prosimian species used for vision research. These services and resources will enhance the scope of experimentation NEI-funded VVRC investigators conduct, promote innovation through specialized veterinary procedures to those who otherwise would not have such capabilities, including early-career vision scientists competing for extramural funding for their laboratories and established investigators who rely upon the use of non-human primates for their research.

项目摘要：动物服务单元 范德比尔特视力研究中心(VVRC)包括对以下方面有浓厚兴趣的教职员工 辨别视觉回路和行为、皮质结构和生理之间的关系，以及 非人灵长类和原猴物种的大脑区域和感知/行为之间的关系。这些 认知和系统层面的调查需要获得专业的兽医饲养和外科技能， 尤其是对于需要在多个月内使用相同动物队列的纵向研究。目的 VVRC仪器模块将提供全面的兽医服务，以支持视力 使用非人类灵长类动物的研究，不包括在个人补助金支持的工作人员范围内。这 模块是VVRC的内部核心，位于威尔逊大厅，通过 心理学，不是VUMC机构设施的一部分；因此，这项服务是向VVRC提供的 会员应要求而不是通过VUMC办公室的研究奖学金平台。在目前的资金中 在此期间，动物单元为支持11名调查员提供了资源，并出版了55份出版物 使用这项服务。这些都在我们的进度报告核心出版物中由调查人员指明 文件。此模块在本期间的可用性为VVRC调查人员节省了240,905美元 兽医技术员和设施费用，否则必须从其他地方获得。对……的调查 研究人员的计划表明，这项服务的使用率将会增加，36人中有14人会适度到广泛地使用 VVRC调查人员。动物服务单元位于威尔逊大厅靠近主要用户的地方，由 VVRC调查员Jeff Schall博士。利用这一核心机制所支持的空间和人员， VVRC动物服务模块将：(1)提供非人类灵长类手术程序的专家协助， (2)提供最好的、无菌的、非人类的灵长类手术实践方面的培训；和(3)支持繁殖 用于视觉研究的原猴物种。这些服务和资源将扩大 NEI资助的VVRC调查人员进行实验，通过专业兽医促进创新 为那些本来不会有这种能力的人提供程序，包括职业生涯早期的视力科学家 为他们的实验室和依赖于使用 非人灵长类动物的研究。