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Animal Lab Facilities at UMMC receives ‘highest form of validation’ for critical role in medical discovery
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posted by Jack Mazurak | 9/9/2010
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Dr. Andrew Grady and his staff ensure UMMC's laboratory animals are well cared for.
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Whether physiology researcher Dr. Lusha Xiang puts a football-sized,
genetically modified obese rat or a normal, lean rat on a treadmill to
carefully monitor its oxygen use, heart rate and blood pressure, he’s
confident he’ll get accurate results.“Rats are most
active during the night,” Xiang said. “These have had their light cycles
altered such that they run in the dark because we wouldn’t get good
results if we were waking them up Full Story
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