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Experimental Animal Center
Introduction
Professor and Director Toshimitsu SUZUKI, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Administrator Kiyoaki KATAHIRA, Ph.D.
The purpose of this center is to make highly precise animal experiments possible, and to maintain and to supply good quality laboratory animals as well. The building was completed in March 1988. Total square measures of the facility is 2,601m2 (square measure of each floor: 1F 657m2, 2F 648m2 3F, 648m2, 4F 648m2, and floor space is 735.1m2.
Air conditioners and microbiologically controlled animal racks are installed throughout the center, and microbiological monitoring is performed regularly to suppress infectious diseases among laboratory animals.
The facility is responsible for the health and welfare of laboratory animals and for the support of animal experiments in Fukushima Medical University. Also, it serves as an agency to disseminate information and promote education concerning laboratory animals to the researchers.
Research
The aim of research in this center is to obtain basic physiological and biological data from laboratory animals and to develop animal handling technology.
The research carried out so far as follows:
1. Development of quality control techniques for laboratory animals
2. Study of the cardiovascular system of laboratory animals
3. Properties of the olfaction and taste in laboratory animals
4. Comparative physiology of laboratory animals
5. Ground-based research of space experiments using laboratory animals
Education
 
Publications
1. Passive avoidance and escape behavior in the spontaneously hypertensive rat: A preliminary examination (1997), Tohoku Psychologica Folia, Vol.56, 49-53. T.Hatayama, T.Sato, and K.Katahira
2. Evidence suggesting that the odor types of pregnant women are a compound of maternal and fetal odor types, (1995), Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. Vol.92, 2617-2621, G.K. Beauchamp, K.Katahira, K.Yamazaki, J.A.Mennella, J.Bard, and E.A.Boyse
3. Growth curve of the body weight, body length and tail length in the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), (1994), Scand.J.Lab.Anim.Sci. Vol.21, No.4, 151-155, K.Katahira, K.Ohwada
4. Reference values for blood chemistry in the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), (1994), Scand. J. Lab. Anim. Sci., Vol.21, No.1, 29-31. K.Ohwada, T.Ito, K.Katahira
5. Indirect measurement for body surface area of cotton rats. (1993), Exp. Anim., Vol.42, No.4, 635-637, K.Ohwada, K.Katahira
6. Hematological standard values in the Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus), (1993), Exp. Anim Vol.42, No.4, 653-656, K.Katahira, K.Ohwada
7. Reference values for organ weight, hematology and serum chemistry in the female ferret (Mustela putrius furo), (1992), Exp. Anim., Vol.41, No.4, 135-142, K.Ohwada, K.Katahira
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