Equipment
AREAS IN THE COMPARATIVE MEDICINE CORE FACILITY
- Rodent Area
Comparative Medicine also has an area designated for material processing (washing zone), as well as its own small storage area. This washing and sterilization zone has a robot for automatic processing (emptying, washing and filling) of cages; a rack washer to in order to wash shelves and accessories used in the housing of the animals such as water bottles, screens and cage covers; two 6 m3 autoclaves, each for the sterilization of material that is going to be used in the housing and care of the animals; and two 5 m3 sterilization chambers for hydrogen peroxide or other chemical agents for use with vapour-sensitive devices, equipment and material. In addition, we have two 0.5 m3 hydrogen peroxide sterilization chambers in the north wing.
- Aquarium
The aquarium has a total of 504 tanks and currently maintains 36 lines of fish.
- Imaging Area
This new area will be located on the 3rd floor where the institute's parking lot is currently located. The new installation's south wing will provide service to surgically-induced cardiovascular pig and rabbit models while the north wing will provide service to rat models and house the new fish facility.
- Pathology Service
Optical projection tomography: Allows for 3D visualization of tissues and can be especially useful in those that have been marked using fluorescence, immunohistochemistry or lacZ stain.
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