Rodent Facility

The IGC Rodent Facility consists of five independent units,

• One Production facility (barrier),
• One Experimental facility (barrier),
• One Experimental facility (conventional),
• One Quarantine (barrier),
• One Germ-free facility *

It ensures the breeding and housing of more than 100 different mouse strains that are available to the scientific staff for research purposes.

* The germ-free facility is open to the international community, through the EMMA consortium (www.emmanet.org)

As services, the IGC Animal Facility may provide:

• Research opportunities for external investigators/institutions
• Rederivation of mouse lines into Specific Pathogen Free conditions*
• In vitro fertilization
• Cryopreservation of mouse germplasm

* According to the FELASA recommendations

New equipment associated to program REEQ/16/BIO/2005:

• Cage washing systems
• Sterilization systems
• Caging systems
• Liquid nitrogen storage