Managed by Animal Care, the gnotobiotic core at Rutgers University provides investigators with the ability to work with germ-free and SPF mice. Currently the core maintains a germ-free colony with C57BL/6 GF mice and Swiss Webster mice to support Rutgers investigators. We offer many technical services that also support gnotobiotic studies.
https://research.rutgers.edu/animal-care/gnotobiotic-core
Our gnotobiotic core provides the following types of technical services to researchers as per their protocol needs:
- Colony management and breeding of germ-free and SPF mice
- Injections
- Blood collection
- Identification & tissue collection for genotyping - ear punch, tail snip
- Body weight
- Fecal collection
- Sterility testing- food, environment, swabs
- Sterile supplies for experiments-available upon request (ex: sterile gowns, gloves, 1.5ml microcentrifuge tubes, needles & syringes)
- Health monitoring - in house microbiological testing, external diagnostic lab for molecular testing
- Animal husbandry services
- Rederivation offered in the future
- Transfer of germ-free mice in autoclavable cages
- Fecal storage at -80
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