University of Pennsylvania

Contact Info:

Ken Cadwell

380 South University Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19104

https://med-upenn.corefacilities.org/service_center/4311/?tab=requests

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RRID: RRID:SCR_022384

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Description:

Our core, which is part of the PennCHOP Microbiome Program, provides access for researchers to isolators and the state-of-the-art Isocage system (individual sterile caging units) for variety of in vivo studies using germ free mice. Core personnel provide technical support for germ-free experiments. A new addition to core is the ability to perform "dirty mouse" experiments in which lab mice are exposed to a cocktail of pathogens typically excluded from specific pathogen free (SPF) facilities.