DEVELOPING AND IMPROVING INSTITUTIONAL ANIMAL RESOURCES

这项赠款申请的目标是升级和改善 南伊利诺伊大学动物学院的实验动物设施 医疗和提供必要的设备以提供护理， 维持研究动物，以更好地支持正在进行的生物医学 research. 具体目的是提供额外的动物收容空间， 将更衣室/更衣室改造成动物收容室， 房间里的地板上有水管，这样水就不会汇集在下面。 并以有限的地面空间取代猫笼。 需要设备和翻修，以保持 动物，以提高运营效率，提供必要的 额外的动物饲养空间，并协助维持AAALAC 认可。

The objectives of this grant request are the upgrading and improving of the laboratory animal facilities at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the provision of needed items of equipment to provide care and maintenance of research animals to better support ongoing biomedical research. The specific aims are to provide additional animal holding space by converting a clothes change/locker room to an animal holding room, to slope the floors in rooms containing runs so that the water will not pool under the runs and to replace cat cages with marginal floor space. The equipment and renovations are required to maintain the health of the animals, to improve efficiency of operations, to provide necessary additional animal holding space and to assist in maintaining AAALAC accreditation.