University of Luxembourg

Contact Info:

Djalil Coowar

27 rue Henri Koch

Esch-sur-Alzette L-4354

https://www.uni.lu/lcsb-en/facilities/rodent-facility/

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_025267

Instrumentation:

Services Provided:

Animal Husbandry

Animal Training

Behavioral Assessment

Behavioral Phenotyping

Bioluminsecence Imaging

Clinical Imaging - Small Animal (luminescence/fluorescence)

Cognitive Assessment

Colony Management

Defined-flora Mice

Genotyping

Germfree Mice

Gnotobiotic Mice

Home Cage Behavioral Analysis

In-vivo Imaging

Microbiome

Multiphoton Microscopy

Provide Germfree Mice

Rederivation (Mouse)

Rodent Study

Rotarod

Stereotaxic Injection

Surgical Services

Tail Biopsy

Ultrasonic Imaging

Veterinary Services

Xenograft / Xenotransplantation

Relevant Publications:

1.) Scafidi A, Lind-Holm Mogensen F, Campus E, Pailas A, Neumann K, Legrave N, Bernardin F, Pereira SL, Antony PM, Nicot N, Mittelbronn M, Grünewald A, Nazarov PV, Poli A, Van Dyck E, Michelucci A (2024 Sep 11). Metformin impacts the differentiation of mouse bone marrow cells into macrophages affecting tumour immunity Heliyon, 10(18), e37792. . PMCID: 11417223.

Description:

Assist researchers in the development and analysis of various in vivo neurodegenerative and cancer models including humanized and germ-free animals. The facility has the capacity to house different transgenic and germ-free mouse strains in more than 2500 IVC cages within a SOPF breeding barrier for researchers from academia as well as for industrial partner