Animal Research Facility
The Animal Research Facility on the 6th floor of the Research Tower provides a convenient location and modern equipment for investigators using animals in research in the School of Dentistry. The Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine provides husbandry services for the animals. The Animal Facility Coordinator, Barbara Emerick, DDS, is available to help all research laboratories with any animal research needs. She can be contacted at bemerick@umich.edu or 763-3398.
Facilities and equipment
- Three-room surgery suite - accommodations for survival surgery
- Two isofluorane anesthesia machines
- Portable dental x-ray unit
- Suction machine
- Hookups for high and low speed dental drills
- Air-water syringe unit
- Large and small animal scales
- Euthanasia station with carbon dioxide tanks
- Laminar flow hood
Services and Resource Links
Information on guidelines/policies for animal research
http://www.ucuca.umich.edu/policy.htm http://www.ucuca.umich.edu/guide.htm
Information on cost-effective housing and ordering of research animals
http://www.ulam.umich.edu/OFFICE/fees.html
Help with special research accommodation needs for both housing and surgical procedures
Review of animal use applications
http://www.ucuca.umich.edu/form.htm
Arrangement of training seminars for faculty and staff
http://www.ucuca.umich.edu/train.htm
Liaison services between School of Dentistry and Unit for Laboratory Animal
Medicine/UCUCA
General information about the iuse of animals in research.
http://www.ucuca.umich.edu, http://www.ulam.umich.edu