Directed by, Dr. Robert Dysko and Dr. Kathryn Eaton, The Animal Care and Germ-Free Mouse Core plays a central role in the management of animal flow through the Center’s phenotyping cores from initial acquisition to final disposition of imported mice. The gateway for all phenotyping involving live mice, the Animal Care and Germ-Free Mouse Core provides mouse importation, quarantine, housing, veterinary care, clinical chemistry and histopathology services; as well as, host a germ-free mouse facility that interacts with the Microbiome core to produce and distribute germ-free and gnotobiotic mouse models.
Please help us continue our mission to advance the research for mouse models of diabetes, diabetic complications, obesity and related metabolic diseases and conditions by acknowledging our grant number U2CDK110768 in publications resulting from services provided by the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center at Michigan.