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Animal Production Program
Announcement
Price List Increase
The NCI Animal Production Program will implement a price increase effective September 28, 2009. It is our intent to implement future price increases aligned with the government fiscal year. This price list will replace the price list dated May 5, 2009.
Click here to view the new pricelist.
The National Cancer Institute Animal Production Program is administered by the Biological Testing Branch and supplies animals to the following:
- Researchers at NCI-Frederick
- NIH on-campus laboratories
- NIH/NCI funded research contracts
- NIH/NCI funded grantees
- Other government agencies
- Other research laboratories of the strains not available commercially
To meet the above needs, animal production contracts plus quality control
contracts are used. The animal production contracts are used to propagate
the NIH sublines of the strains. Many of the strains produced are not available commercially
and the NCI program is the sole source of several lines. Click here for ordering and pricing
information.
Health Monitoring
Health monitoring on the NCI Animal Production Program rodents colonies is performed by the contractor, Charles River Labs, and by the University of Missouri.
Animals are submitted monthly from each barrier room and twice a year from each isolator. Results from Charles River Labs and from the University of Missouri
are posted on the Charles River Labs website and maintained for 18 months.
Any potentially pathogenic results will be relayed to the customers by fax, phone or e-mail within 24 hours of confirmation.
Genetic Monitoring
Genetic monitoring is performed by the University of Missouri. Profiles for each inbred strain were developed from NCI Foundations Colonies in 2008 by the
University of Missouri. Embryos were frozen from these colonies and will be reconstituted as necessary to correct any genetic drift that may be found in the breeding colonies.
All breeders in the barrier foundation colonies are screened annually using DNA- based testing methods. Any animals that deviate from the accepted profiles are removed from the colony.
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