Animal Physiology and Phenotyping Core

The Animal Physiology and Phenotyping Core, which was part of the O’Brien Kidney Center prior to its closing, is now a YSM Department of Internal Medicine Core.

The Core still provides most of the services that were offered as part of the O’Brien Kidney Center, still with an emphasis on specialized services and training for assessing renal function in small animal models. For all services involving data output, the data are analyzed and the results given to the customer. Services include the following.

• Assistance with Study Design
• Assistance with Methodology Text for Grants and Publications
• Letter of Support for Grant applications

• Awake Long-Term Telemetric Blood Pressure Studies
• Transdermal GFR Studies
• Surgical Procedures
• Line Placement
• Sample Collections
• Tissue Harvest
• Metabolic Cage Studies
• Light-Tight Boxes with Running Wheels (for circadian rhythm studies)

• Plasma/Serum Assays
  • Albumin
  • Creatinine
  • BUN
  • Ca+2
  • Cl-
  • Mg+2
  • K+
  • Na+
  • Phosphorus
  • Osmolality Measurements
• Urine Assays
  • Albumin
  • Citrate
  • Creatinine
  • Ca+2
  • Cl-
  • Mg+2
  • K+
  • Na+
  • Phosphorus
  • Osmolality Measurements