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About Facility
Animal facility provides animal care,
breeding and maintenance of experimental animals e.g. Rats,
Mice, Rabbits for ongoing research projects of the
institute. The facility works under the guidance of
Institutional Animal Ethics Committee to ensure excellent
animal care, human handling and treatment and in complete
compliance with the Government of India guidelines. The
facility has been registered (No. 76/1999/CPCSEA) for
breeding of and experiments on animals under the Committee
for the purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on
Animals (CPCSEA), Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, Government of India. The current animal
facility may move to the new facility by the year 2009.
Institutional
Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC)
Dr. S.K. Ray, Chairman, Formerly Director of Animal
Husbandry & Veterinary Science
Justice S.K. Mishra, Bhubaneswar
Dr. R.C. Patra, Professor, Department of Veterinary
Medicine, OUAT, Bhubaneswar
Dr. A.K. Satapathy, Assistant Director, RMRC, Bhubaneswar
Mr. N.R. ManSingh, CPCSEA Nominee
Dr. P.C. Supakar, Scientist, ILS, Bhubaneswar
Dr. D.V. Singh, Scientist, ILS, Bhubaneswar
Dr. SK Sahoo, Scientist, ILS, Bhubaneswar
Facility
Currently, the following animal
strains are maintained.
- Rats Fisher
344 Holding and Breeding
- Mice BALB/c,
C57BL6, OuJ and HeJ Holding and
Breeding
- Rabbit New
Zealand white Holding (proposed)
- Mostomys Mostomys
coucha Holding (proposed)
Animal use is regulated by the IAEC,
as per Government of India guidelines where the committee
examines the Form B, submitted by the faculty viz. protocol,
number of animal species required, etc. before experiments
begins. Usually user need to inform consultant veterinarian/
scientist in-charge of animal use plans, such as animal
order and breeding experiments well in advance. Breeding is
normally handled by each group of its own use.
Only authorized personnel were allowed
to access animal facility so that to minimize risk of
microbial contamination to housed animals. The detail record
keeping is mandatory and is kept in animal facility.
Veterinarian-Scientist In-charge
Dr. Sarita Jena
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