Yale MMPC Animal Core

The Yale MMPC Animal Core provides a centralized facility for coordinating receiving, screening, and monitoring mice from outside investigators. Residence through the Yale MMPC Animal Core has been designed to minimize the quarantine period, while allowing phenotyping tests to commence while the mice are in quarantine. The end result is that most mice can be phenotyped at the appropriate age or weight following transfer to Yale, which is a critical determinant when performing metabolic studies. The scheduling of the shipment of mice from extramural clients will be timed and orchestrated by the Yale MMPC Administrative Core working in close coordination with the Yale MMPC Animal Core and the Yale MMPC Phenotyping Core.

The overall objective of the Yale Metabolic Phenotyping in Live Models of Obesity and Diabetes (MMPC) Animal Core is to provide state-of-the-art husbandry, health care, expedited quarantine, and biosecure housing and procedure space for assessing and maintaining mice submitted for phenotyping. The MMPC Animal Core will continue to reside within the Yale Animal Resources Center (YARC) and will build on the experience gained from metabolic phenotyping > 10,000 mice as the Animal Core for Yale’s Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (MMPC).