ANIMAL RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

动物护理部管理中心实验动物 在俄勒冈州健康科学大学校园和一个178英亩 俄勒冈州希尔斯伯勒附近的农场。 动物护理机构为AAALAC 然而，25岁的设施需要持续的 更新，以充分保持动物护理的标准， 实验动物护理和使用指南中所述。 43，000平方米英尺动物护理设施分为五个主要的动物 护理部门。 1)中央设施的二楼 啮齿动物和兔子; 2）中央设施房屋的一楼 大型动物，如羊、狗、猪和猴子; 3）校园 大学农场的隔离设施里有狗、猫、几内亚 猪，和新生的羔羊; 4）牙科学校的房子狗，猫，兔子， 大鼠和小鼠; 5）Vollum研究所饲养大鼠，小鼠， 猴子兔子和鱼 本提案中要求的楼层翻修是必要的， 提高实验动物环境质量， 地板表面的最低标准， 实验动物的护理和使用。 大约一半（50%）的 现有的混凝土地板正在恶化。 有许多洞， 地上的石头，地上的石头。 骨料 这些缺陷使得地板的卫生很困难，如果不是的话。 不可能的 这种卫生设施的缺乏对动物来说尤其重要 我们的房子直接在地板上运行，如羊，狗，猪， 猫

The Department of Animal Care operates a central laboratory animal facility at The Oregon Health Sciences University campus and a 178 acre farm near Hillsboro, Oregon. The animal care facilities are AAALAC accredited; however, the twenty-five year old facility requires continual renovation, to adequately maintain the standards of animal care that are described in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The 43,000 sq. ft. Animal Care Facility is divided into five major animal care sections. 1) The second floor of the central facility houses rodents and rabbits; 2) the first floor of the central facility houses large animals such as sheep, dogs, pigs, and monkeys; 3) the campus quarantine facility at the University Farm houses dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and newborn lambs; 4) the Dental School houses dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, and mice; and the 5) the Vollum Institute houses rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, and fish. The renovations of the floors requested in this proposal are necessary to improve the quality of the laboratory animal environment to meet the minimum standards for floor surfaces as described in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Approximately, one half (50%) of the existing concrete floors are deteriorating. There are numerous holes, cracks in the floors, and patches of the floor that are worn to the aggregate. These faults make sanitation of the floor difficult, if not impossible. This lack of sanitation is especially critical for animals we house directly on the floor in runs, such as sheep, dogs, pigs, and cats.