Service Centre category(ies)
Animal Facilities / Research Animals
Description of the Service Centre
The CICS- UBI animal Facilities comprise a quarantine room, a breeding area with rooms prepared for approximately 1600 mice and 700 rats and an experimentation area prepared also for housing mice (approximately 1000) and rats (approximately 220). All rooms are equipped with Individually ventilated cages. The experimentation area includes a surgery room. The animal facility team provides feeding, watering, daily cage changing and veterinary care.
Service Centre web address
Contact person's name
Graça Baltazar
Contact person's e-mail
gbaltazar@fcsaude.ubi.pt
Contact person's telephone
351275329042
Last edited on
2013-09-19 12:36:40
Service
Husbandry and routine daily care
Available for external use?
Yes
Comments
Husbandry and routine daily care (watering, feeding and cage changing) by qualified animal caretakers.
Service
Veterinary care and advise
Available for external use?
No
Comments
Animal health surveillance, support and advice in surgical procedures
Equipment
Quarantine
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Comments
Acclimatization of animals to the new environment. Verification of health status.
Equipment
Equipment for administration of volatile anesthetics
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Equipment
Postoperative Recovery Unity
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Equipment
Stereotaxic frame for rats and mice
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Equipment
System for hydrogen peroxide sterilization of rooms and equipment
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Equipment
Stereo microscope
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Equipment
Basic Surgical Instruments
Service type: self-service or full-service?
Full-service
Comments
dry sterilizers, cautery, dental drill, temperature controlled recovery Pad