Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center

 
The Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center provides investigators wishing to address hypotheses related to diabetes and metabolism with a range of animal model systems. Assistance with mouse experimentation falls under the auspices of the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center, which branched off from this core in 2001. Expertise of core personnel reflects the need to assist in both small and large animal experiments.
 
Services provided are surgical, experimental, with limited analytical capacity (blood glucose, serology).  Emphasis is on procedures needed to study conscious, unrestrained animals.  Equipment available to investigators includes infusion pumps, blood flow meters, blood pressure monitors, gas analyzers, centrifuges, and glucose analyzers. The Animal Resources Core is experienced in developing new procedures and animal models to accommodate evolving research needs. Many of the procedures conducted in this core are novel. For this reason, training of investigators is an important responsibility of the Animal Resources Core.
 
Director: David Wasserman
E-mail: mmpc@vanderbilt.edu
Website: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=mmpc