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Currently the Center operates from a 100-acre site with 15 buildings
totaling 200,000 square feet of indoor space. Diversified animal
housing systems include indoor/outdoor cages for housing great apes
and rhesus macaques in large family groups, outdoor corncrib/minicrib
combinations for housing macaque and cercopithecine species, and
indoor single housing units for all non-human primate species.
Multiple clinical and research support areas are located throughout
the UL Lafayette-NIRC campus. Diagnostic equipment available at
the Center includes a Continental TM40 radiographic unit with automatic
processor and computer imagery for diagnostic enhancement and an
Aloka 500V ultrasound unit with 7.5 and 5.0 megahertz probes for
large and small animal imagery. A centrally located surgical suite
is equipped with the following:
- One Quantiflex V.M.C. Anesthesia Unit
- Two Narkove Deluxe Anesthesia Units
- Two Spacelabs Life Support Monitors
- Olympus Endoscope with video monitors and color photo printer
- Three Burdick EK10 Electrocardiograph Units
- One Zoll Defibrillator
- Medivision Laparoscope with a High Intensity Light Source, Digital
Camera and Digital Enhancer
- Valleylab Electrosurgical Generator and Accompanying Instrumentation
Haemonetics MCS Apheresis Unit
A 12,000 square foot, state-of-the-art laboratory has recently
been constructed at the Center. Diagnostic support capabilities
include hematology, chemistry, microbiology, urinalysis, parasitology
and histology. Among other investigator support procedures, the
laboratory is capable of providing ficoll gradient isolation of
peripheral blood mononuclear cells, platelet
aggregation profiles, non-human primate lymphocyte proliferation
assays, and flow cytometry. Major instrumentation in the laboratory
includes:
- Coulter STKS Hematology Analyzer
- Coulter Epics XL Flow Cytometer
- Coulter ACL 3000 Automated Coagulation Profiler
- Bio/Data Corp. Platelet Aggregation Profiler
- Hitachi 747-100 Automated Chemistry Analyzer
- Dade MicroScan Automated Bacteriology Panel Reader
- Forma Two Chamber CO2 Incubator
- BD Anaerobic/Microaerophilic Incubator
- Shandon Hypercenter XP Tissue Processor
- Shandon Varistain XY Tissue Stainer
- Fisher-Hamilton Trimming/Dissection Work Station
- Several Ultra Low(-70ŪC) Revco and Forma Freezers
- Beckman GS-6R Refrigerated Centrifuges
- Polytech Laboratory Information System
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