Animal Core

WNPRC的动物服务部雇用了一批训练有素的兽医；兽医 技师、兽医病理学家、研究技师、增菌技师和动物护理 技术人员。这些人，他们提供必要的医疗护理，日常饲养，以及 为近1500名国家核电计划人口提供环境浓缩，并为超过95人提供研究支持 当地、地区、国家和国际科学家将组成拟议的HIVRAD的动物核心 非人灵长类动物实验。这一核心的六个目标如下： 1)为下列项目提供健康的、具有基因特征的恒河猴 这个应用程序。 2)提供现代化、设备齐全的实验设施，用于表演 本申请中概述的饲养、临床、实验和尸检程序。 3)提供必要的专业畜牧、兽医和技术援助，支持和 维护本项目使用的受SIV感染的动物。 4)确保遵守所有大学和联邦关于在#年使用NHP的规定 生物医学研究。 5)提供维持心理健康所需的专门环境 将在拟议项目中使用的受SIV感染的猕猴的福祉。 6)从实验动物中获得高质量的生物样本，以实现以下目标 个别项目。

The Animal Services Division of the WNPRC employs a fully trained staff of veterinarians; veterinary technicians, veterinary pathologists, research technicians, enrichment technicians, and animal care technicians. These individuals, who provide the necessary medical care, daily husbandry, and environmental enrichment for a NHP population of almost 1500 and research support for greater than 95 local, regional, national, and international scientists will compose the Animal Core for the proposed HIVRAD nonhuman primate experiments. The six aims of this Core will be as follows: 1) To provide healthy, genetically characterized rhesus macaques for the projects outlined in this application. 2) To provide contemporary, well-equipped experimental facilities for the performance of the husbandry, clinical, experimental, and necropsy procedures outlined in this application. 3) To provide expert husbandry, veterinary, and technical assistance necessary to support and maintain the SIV infected animals utilized on this project. 4) To ensure compliance with all university and federal regulations regarding the use of NHP in biomedical research. 5) To provide the specialized environmental enrichment needed to maintain the psychological well being of the SIV infected macaques that will be utilized in the proposed projects. 6) To obtain quality biological samples from the experimental animals to fulfill the objectives of the individual projects.