Animal Facilities
and Animal Health

Ovidiu Jumanca

Director

The Animal Facilities and Animal Health Core Facility offers all the services required for housing and animal health care. Accredited by the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), it has several animal facilities that can accommodate animals depending on the species, health level and nature of handling. It includes an SPF+ animal facility (free of pathogens and opportunistic germs), an SPF animal facility (free of pathogens), an aquatic animal facility and satellite animal facilities: conventional quarantine, SPF quarantine, containment level 2 (NC2) and containment level 3 (NC3).

Services

 

Housing rodents in SPF mode


Quarantine


Colony management and basic techniques (via the AniBio application) 


Technical and veterinary support


Animal health monitoring: sentinel program, water analysis, etc..


Animal facility inspections and equipment certification 


Transfers of animals between institutions (import/export)


On-demand services: studies in collaboration with other institutions and industry partners


Training (user training and continuous training)


Animal physiology

The Animal Physiology platform offers all the services required to allow users to record physiological data in small animals (rodents). Blood pressure and ECG techniques as well as imaging and respiratory physiology services are currently available.

Services

Respiratory physiology services (in vivo lung function measurements) - FlexiVent


Xenogen IVIS Bioluminescence Imaging


Intraventricular pressure using the Millar catheter 


Echocardiography, ultrasound imaging


Specialized microinjection


Synchronized metabolic and behavioral studies (Sable Promethion)


Various surgeries


Services on request: studies in collaboration with other institutions and industry partners (possibility of studies in GLP mode)


Training (training of animal users, continuing education)


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