CORE--ANIMAL CARE FACILITY

动物护理设施由中心在 威斯康星州医学院动物护理单位， 经AAALAC认证（1996年11月审查）。动物护理设施 位于McArdle实验室的9楼， 医学科学中心7楼（B翼）（紧邻 McArdle）。该设施占地约10，600平方英尺， 这两个地点，其中约5 300净平方英尺的使用面积 用于饲养动物，其余空间用于清洗笼子 和实验室进行尸检或手术。B翼设施的设计 饲养用致癌和其他有毒化学物质处理过的动物， 部分是由国家癌症研究所提供的建设资金建造的 该设施自1981年以来一直在使用。内设施 McArdle建筑可用于维护不低于 用这种药剂治疗。

The Animal Care Facility is operated by the Center under the aegis of the University of Wisconsin Medical School Animal Care Unit, which is accredited by AAALAC (reviewed in November 1996). The Animal Care Facility is located on the 9th floor of the McArdle Laboratory and on the 5th and 7th floors (B-wing) of the Medical Sciences Center (immediately adjacent to McArdle). The Facility occupies approximately 10,600 net square feet in these two locations, of which approximately 5,300 net square feet is used for housing animals, with the remainder devoted to space for cage washing and laboratories for necropsy or surgery. The B wing facility was designed to house animals treated with carcinogenic and other toxic chemicals and was built, in part, with construction funds from the National Cancer Institute; this facility has been in use since 1981. The facilities in the McArdle building are available for maintenance for animals not under treatment with such agents.