UW ICTR Physiology Core Laboratory

(Services mainly for Basic and Translational Type 1 Investigators)

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This special animal physiology facility, one of ICTR's core laboratory sites, offers free services to ICTR members gathering pilot data for grant applications. The highly trained four-member scientist group offers laboratory services for creating and studying animal models of disease, including animal surgeries, imaging (ultrasound) and physiologic measurements on animals ranging from primates to mice.

The laboratory staff will also work with investigators on exploratory new models without charge until there is a working model.

Focusing on cardiovascular research, the laboratory techniques are also useful to investigators in other fields. Currently, the facility is conducting studies into diabetes, bone growth, drug toxicology, and gene therapy in liver and skeletal muscle, as well as cardiovascular disease. One of the most popular services provided by the facility is evaluation of the cardiovascular phenotype of transgenic mice.

Officially known as the Cardiovascular Physiology Core facility, the laboratory is located in 4,000 square feet of laboratory and surgical space on the first floor of the Medical Science Center (1300 University Avenue).

The facilities include: (1) Fully equipped small and large animal operating theaters, (2) state-of-the-art echocardiography (3) Mouse ECG and blood pressure monitoring via telemetry (4) Exercise testing and training (5) Physiologic recording equipment (6) Sonomicrometry.

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