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Discovering How Animal Body Composition and Energy Balance Influence Health
The Animal Metabolism and Phenotyping Core provides the tools necessary for animal body composition and energy balance studies.
Core Staff: Services Include:
One-on-One
Consulting Body Composition
Analysis · Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (
· Customized
dissection and tissue collection
Energy Expenditure · Indirect calorimetry
· Voluntary
exercise (wheel running) with automated data collection
Enrichment
Opportunities and Trainings · In house workshops on animal
metabolism
· On site training
in analysis of body composition and energy balance
Service
Request
The Animal Metabolism and
Phenotyping Core also has a Glucose Utilization Facility which studies the
metabolism of glucose, a major nutrient, in conscious free-moving mice under
minimum stress.
Services Include:
· Oral glucose tolerance testing
For more detailed information, please view our description of services.
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| Last updated May 21, 2008 | |||





