University Animal Care Pathology Services

Mission Statement

University Animal Care Pathology Services provides quality assurance testing and diagnostic and comparative pathology support for the research animals and research animal facilities at the University of Arizona. Quality assurance includes the research animal health monitoring program and the environmental microbiological monitoring program. Diagnostic pathology support is routinely provided for any research animals that become moribund or die unexpectedly. Anatomic and clinical pathology support for research projects, including comprehensive and targeted pathologic phenotyping of genetically altered rodents, are provided on a fee for service basis.

******Blood & Body Fluid Submission Policy (please read)
Hematology Blood Chemistry Urinalysis Necropsy Serology Rodent Non-Rodent	Microbiology Parasitology Histology Histotechnology Histopathology Interpretation Photomicroscopy	Molecular Diagnostics Rodent IMPACT testing Rodent Antibody Production Tests * Rodent Blood Collection Instructions

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Hematology	Clinical Chemistry


Vendor Surveillance/Quarantine Health Surveillance
Environmental Microbiological Monitoring Program

Related Internet links:

http://ccm.ucdavis.edu/tvmouse/ Information on necropsy, histology, and pathology of the mouse from the University of California-Davis Center for Comparative Medicine.

http://www.radil.missouri.edu/ Laboratory animal disease notes, rodent parasitology atlas, and protocols for sample collection at University of Missouri RADIL site (click on Teaching Resources).

http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/FMPro?-db=TumorInstance&-format=mtdp.html&-view Mouse tumor biology database from the Jackson Laboratories.

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