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Currently the Center operates from a 100-acre site with 24 buildings
totaling over 485,000 square feet. 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
- Novametrix model 7100 pulse-oximeter/capnograph
- Ultrasound imaging/radiographic imaging
On site capabilities include a 12,000 square foot diagnostic laboratory.
Diagnostic support capabilities include hematology, chemistry, coagulation,
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 Becton Dickson FACSCalibur Flow Cytometer
- Coulter ACL 3000 Automated Coagulation Profiler
- Bio/Data Corp. Platelet Aggregation Profiler
- Dade Behring Dimension Xpand Plus Clinical Chemistry Analyzer
- Dade MicroScan Automated Bacteriology Panel Reader
- Spectronic 20 Genesys Spectrophotometer
- Synergy HT Multi-Detection Microplate Reader
- Elx50 Automated Microplate Strip Washer
- Shandon Hypercenter XP Tissue Processor
- Shandon Varistain XY Tissue Stainer
- Tissue-Tex Tissue Embedding Console System
- Medilab Laboratory Information System
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