CORE--ANIMAL FACILITY

动物设施实际上是一个动物护理项目，由员工、服务和设施组成，致力于满足匹兹堡大学癌症研究所研究项目对动物的依赖需求。该基金的目标是在癌症相关调查需要使用动物模型时提供专业知识、建议、设施和人员以及培训和援助。一个新设施，约12,000平方英尺的净。该项目于2002年10月在希尔曼癌症中心（Hillman Cancer Center）获得验证并开放，使该项目的净面积增加到约850平方英尺。该设施位于UPMC Shadyside医院一楼的Shadyside泌尿外科资源（SUSR）设施内。这些设施的设计、管理和专用于维持特定的无病原体（SPF）啮齿动物种群，使用屏障和微隔离笼技术。这个核心是大学整体动物护理计划的一个组成部分，由机构动物护理和使用委员会监督。该计划已在美国农业部（23-R0016）注册，并与美国国立卫生研究院公共卫生服务部门（A3187-01）保持保证。它是由国际实验动物护理评估和认证协会（AAALAC Int.）完全认可的。2003年3月收到最后一次完整认证状态的通知。

The Animal Facility is actually an animal care program, consisting of staff, services and facilities dedicated to meeting the animal-dependent needs of the research programs of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. The goal of the Facility is to provide expertise, advice, facilities, and personnel as well as training and assistance, whenever cancer-related investigations require the use of animal models. A new facility, of approximately 12, 000 net sq. ft., in the Hillman Cancer Center, was validated and opened in October of 2002, to add to the approximately 850 net sq. ft. facility located within the Shadyside Urolical Surgical Resource(SUSR) facility on the ground floor of UPMC Shadyside Hospital. These facilities are designed, managed and dedicated to maintaining specific pathogen-free (SPF) rodent populations, using barrier and microisolator caging techniques. This core is an integral component of the University's overall Animal Care Program, that is overseen by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. This program is registered with the USDA (23-R0016) and maintains a letter of assurance with the Public Health Service of the NIH (A3187-01). It is fully accredited by the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation for Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC Int.). Notice of last full accreditation status was received in March of 2003.