Scope of services:
The Laboratory of Genetically Modified Animals is a separate unit of a higher zoo-hygienic standard which offers infrastructure to:
- conduct research on standard laboratory animals e.g. C57BL, BALB/c mice, transgenic animals, or immune-compromised animals e.g. BALB/c Nude, NOD SCID mice in accordance with the protocol by Local Ethical Committee
- provide comprehensive breeding including the import of breeding pairs, breeding in compliance with the protocol by the Ordering Party, multiplication and delivery of a specified batch of animals to the Ordering Party. We offer transport of animals to the seat of the Ordering Party within Warsaw area
- maintenance of the animals in the experiment in line with the needs of the Ordering Party
- chargeable access to the laboratory infrastructure (cages, IVC, operation room) for the specified research protocol
In addition, the laboratory offers:
- substantive consultation on the research design (the choice of animal, the estimate of the number of animals, application to the Local Ethical Committee)
- labelling, genetic material collection, genotyping after the genotyping protocol has been delivered
- surgical procedures
- biological material collection for analyses
- substance admission (iv, ip, im, it, po)
- mice immunisation
- animal euthanasia with CO2 and O2 mixture
