services
Services Included
The UVM Animal Resources Center (ARC) provides for the daily
care of the University’s research animals, 98% of which are rodents
(mice and rats). ARC personnel provide basic
husbandry and care at 4 sites. Additional assistance (for instance with
surgical procedures, treatments, specialized food or water) is charged
to the investigator on a fee-for-service basis. Services provided by
the ARC staff which are included are as follows:
- Standardized food, bedding, environmental enrichment,
caging, and cage changing intervals (typically every other week for
rodents in ventilated rack housing) with daily inspection of all cages.
- Sanitation of cages, equipment and animal rooms.
- Environmental monitoring and recording.
- Provision and laundering of protective clothing.
- Diagnosis and treatment of naturally occurring health
problems.
- Microbiological and serological monitoring of
animals and rooms for pathogenic and selected opportunistic infectious
agents.
- Receipt and conditioning of newly received animals.
- Record-keeping, monitoring and generation of reports
associated with federal regulatory requirements for animal care and use.
- Decontamination and disposal of biohazardous animal waste
and carcasses.
- Training in animal care and use.
- Consultation on animal care and use, breeding, species
selection, species-specific biology and health care.
- ARC initiated relocations of animals.
- Animal procurement from approved vendors.
- Use of the necropsy and procedure rooms.
- Necropsy for all unscheduled deaths.
Services available for additional fees (partial list for illustration,
please
contact
ARC for information about additional
services):
- Provision of special food, bedding or equipment.
- Provision of special care required by specific research
protocols such as increased frequency of cage changes or non-standard
dietary supplementation.
- Sanitation or decontamination of research equipment.
- Breeding colony management.
- Testing of serum, cell lines, transplantable tumors, and
other biologicals destined for use in animals for pathogens or
opportunistic infectious agents.
- Identification of individual animals (ear-tagging,
punching, tattooing, etc).
- Correction of overcrowded cages or pens.
- Import and export of animals from non-conventional vendors.
- Other technical services such as administration of
experimental compounds, specimen collection, weighing, post-procedural
observations, etc.
- Purchase and/or administration of prophylactic medications
(e.g., antibiotics in drinking water).
- Administration of other medications required by or
resulting from experimentation.
- Clinical and diagnostic laboratory services required by
experimentation.
- Euthanasia.
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