Equipment for histological processing:
The facility has the equipment necessary for fixation(chemical or by freezing), preparations of blocks, slicing and staining using various techniques, from conventional to immunohistochemical stains. The set-up includes everything from the automatic tissue processor to a paraffin embedding station, two microtomes, anautomated staining systems and a microscope for digital registration of the samples.
Optical imaging equipment:
– Xenogen IVIS ® Spectrum: is a high sensitivity, low background noise system for non-invasive optical imaging which enables bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging of cells (in vitro), entire animals (in vivo) and organs (ex vivo).
– Leica MacroFluo™: is a precision macroscope with filters for multiple fluorochromes, a Z16 APO (16:1) zoom system and a CCD camera to monitor and record the fluorescence of entire organs and tissues at high resolution with no need to process them histologically.
One hall for the reception and handling of animals.
2 quarantinerooms pre-experimental process
Room to perform small procedures and cures and preparation rooms for large animals prior to the surgical area
Four multi-use rooms for maintenance of rodents and lagomorphs.
Lagomorphs can individually accommodate upto 102 rabbits.
One barrier zone for rodents maintenance under SPF conditions with capacity for about 3,000 animals in microisolators. It has autoclaves, SAS to the material inlet, automatic beverage system by reverse osmosis, laminar flow hoods for animal handling and integrated operating room within the barrier zone.
One barrier zone for rodents maintenance under SPF conditions with capacity for about 3,000 animals in microisolators. It has autoclaves, SAS to the material inlet, automatic beverage system by reverse osmosis, laminar flow hoods for animal handling and integrated operating room within the barrier zone.
This unit has facilities with a perimeter area of 3,200 m2 and it has large rooms to house the experimental animals according to their species characteristics. Among the equipment and facilities include:
9 rooms for large animals (pigs) maintenance with capacity for about 350 animals, for long periods of time and environmental, nutritional and microbiological conditions controlled.
2 rooms for the maintenance of small ruminants (sheep and goats) with capacity for about 60 animals over long periods of time and environmental, nutritional and microbiological conditions controlled.
