CORE--LABORATORY ANIMAL

实验动物核心设施的目的是提供选定的 为合格项目提供高质量的服务和动物（大鼠和小鼠） 以合理的价格购买P30中心。该设施繁殖， 根据研究者的要求，维持Sprague-Dawley大鼠群。 核心为中心研究人员提供了特定的大鼠和小鼠， 年龄和性别，以及已知胎龄的妊娠女性。在 此外，该设施还提供各种技术服务和日常服务。 研究者需要的外科手术。实验动物 核心是一个特定的无病原体的设施，并努力提供 最健康的动物实验动物中心人员 也可以教P30中心的成员处理动物 和外科手术，根据批准的程序 大学动物使用委员会。

The purpose of the Laboratory Animal Core facility is to provide selected services and animals (rats and mice) of high quality to eligible projects of the P30 Center at a reasonable price. The facility breeds and maintains a colony of Sprague-Dawley rats as required by investigators. The Core provides Center investigators with rats and mice of specific ages and sexes, and pregnant females of known gestational age. In addition, the facility provides various technical services and routine surgical procedures as needed by the investigators. The Laboratory Animal Core is a specific pathogen-free facility and strives to provide the healthiest animals possible. The personnel of the Laboratory Animal Core are available as well to teach members of the P30 Center animal handling and surgical procedures according to procedures approved by the University's Committee on Animal Use.