Animal House Torre Biologica
The Animal House Torre Biologica - StTB - covers an area of about 500 square meters. It owns areas, equipment and skills to house about 5000 mice and 1000 rats.
It also has a room specifically equipped to house zebrafish, experimental surgery and micro-surgery room, a modern wash and sterilization room, a chemical laboratory, a biological laboratory, a histology and perfusion laboratory, a large service, isolation and quarantine area. Each mice/rats housing rooms is equipped with a laboratory for experimental treatments.
The STTB is awaiting ministerial approval.
The animal species that may be housed at StTB are:
- Mouse (Mus musculus)
- Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
- Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
- Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)
- Chinese hamster (cricetulus griseus)
- Zebrafish (danio rerio)