ANIMAL RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

动物护理部设有一个中心实验室 俄勒冈州健康科学大学校园的动物设施 以及俄勒冈州希尔斯伯勒附近一个178英亩的农场。 动物护理 设施获得AAALAC认证;然而，25年 旧校园设施需要不断翻新，新设备 和新笼子，以充分维持AAALAC标准 动物护理 21，000平方米英尺校园设施分为两个独立的 路段 二楼是啮齿动物和兔子的家。 第一 地板上住着大型动物，如羊、狗、猪和猴子。 在此要求的灯光和天花板的翻新 建议是必要的，以提高实验室的质量 动物环境，以满足最低标准的灯光和 天花板的保养和使用指南 实验动物 现有的吊灯会积灰， 灯泡没有被覆盖，以保护动物和人员免受 灯泡坏了 天花板由石棉穿孔制成 瓷砖不是不透水的，还会收集污垢和灰尘。 本提案中要求的设备是更新 25岁的手术设施，其设计不适用于 1987年所需的复杂实验程序。 我们预计，OHSU外科医生将进行超过250个胎儿 绵羊的手术，50例猪的肝脏和胰腺移植， 16例猴心肺移植，许多研讨会， 肾移植和严重创伤培训班， 救生训练班

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 campus facility requires continual renovation, new equipment and new cages to adequately maintain the AAALAC standards of animal care. The 21,000 sq. ft. campus facility is divided into two separate sections. The second floor houses rodents and rabbits. The first floor houses large animals such as sheep, dogs, pigs, and monkeys. The renovations of the lights and ceilings requested in this proposal are necessary to improve the quality of the laboratory animal environment to meet the minimum standards for lights and ceilings as described in The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The existing hanging lights collect dust, and the bulbs are not covered to protect animals and personnel from broken bulbs. The ceilings are constructed of asbestos perforated tiles, are not water impermeable, and also collect dirt and dust. The equipment requested in this proposal is necessary to update a 25 year old surgical facility which was not designed to service the sophisticated experimental procedures required in 1987. We project that OHSU surgeons will perform over 250 fetal surgeries in sheep, 50 liver and pancreas transplants in pigs, sixteen heart lung transplants in monkeys, many workshops and training classes in kidney transplants and advanced trauma and lifesaving training classes.