PRIMATE SUPPLY INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE: AIDS

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：PSIC提供 高效共享实验室灵长类动物所需的通信机制 由美国的研究人员和机构进行。我们的目标是帮助 减少研究所需的灵长类动物总数，特别是进口 灵长类，通过最大限度地利用现有的灵长类资源。PSIC的 服务包括：1)新的列表，每月两次的时事通讯列表当前 对灵长类动物、组织、身体、设备和服务的需求和供应 服务；2)继续列表，这些计划的双月时事通讯 需要宣传长期或持续的灵长类需求或供应情况；3) 年度资源指南(ARG)，列出订阅内容的年度出版物 灵长类动物供应商、实验室设备供应商和商业 交通和检疫设施等服务；4)转诊 立即匹配电话、传真、电子邮件或 信函要求在PSIC的计算机数据库中开放清单；以及5)一个 包括节目信息、当前ARG、列表的互联网网站 灵长类分类，以及灵长类感兴趣的其他站点的链接 研究社区。PSIC服务于研究实验室、研究 机构、生物技术和制药公司、动物园、 以及繁衍的殖民地。高效共享实验室灵长类动物的结果是 为研究界节省了大量成本。仅1998年一年的数字 表明1,882只猕猴通过 票据交换所，基于研究的平均价格天真的，商业上的 1998年供应的猕猴为1,750美元，为330万美元。PSIC计划 为研究界带来了显著的直接成本节约。这个 PSIC的总体目标是帮助最大限度地利用灵长类 资源，并减少研究人员定位所需的时间和精力 或者替换动物和组织。这样做的好处和必要性 保护工作每天都在增加。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the applicant's abstract): The PSIC provides the communication mechanisms needed for efficient sharing of laboratory primates by research investigators and institutions in the US. The goal is to help reduce the total number of primates needed for research, especially imported primates, by maximizing the use of existent primate resources. The PSIC's services include: 1) New Listings, a twice monthly newsletter listing current needs for and availability of primates, tissues, cadavers, equipment, and services; 2) Continuing Listings, a bi-monthly newsletter for those programs needing to advertise long term or continuing primate needs or availability; 3) Annual Resources Guide (ARG), an annual publication which lists subscribing suppliers of primates, laboratories equipment suppliers, and commercial services such as transportation and quarantine facilities; 4) referral services which immediately match telephone, facsimile, electronic mail or letter requests to open listing in the PSIC's computer database; and 5) an internet website that includes program information, the current ARG, a listing of primate taxonomy, and links to other sites of interest to the primate research community. The PSIC services research laboratories, research institutions, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, zoological parks, and breeding colonies. Efficient sharing of laboratory primates results in significant cost savings to the research community. Figures for 1998 alone indicate that the value of the 1,882 macaques placed through the Clearinghouse, based on the average price for a research naive, commercially supplied macaque being $1,750 in 1998, was $3.3 million. The PSIC program results in significant direct cost savings to the research community. The overall objective of the PSIC is to help maximize the use of primate resources, and to reduce the time and effort required by researchers to locate or replace animals and tissues. The benefit and necessity of such conservation efforts are increasing daily.