Preconditioned Models and Services

Cohorts of HsdBlu:LE rats, Hsd:SpragueDawley^®TM SD^®TM rats, C57BL/6NHsd mice, and other stocks and strains of Harlan Laboratories' rodents, can be maintained on custom research diets within our maximum security production barriers.

The rodents are fed diets specified by the client for defined periods of time prior to shipment. Animals are shipped to the client using Harlan Laboratories environmentally controlled vehicles. Custom research diet animal maintenance for client-owned animals is also available.

 Benefits of Harlan Custom Diet Animal Maintenance

• Harlan Laboratories' nutritionists, in collaboration with requesting investigators, customize the research diets to adjust nutrients and achieve experimental objectives.
• Animals are maintained on client customized diets within Harlan maximum security production barriers until shipment.
• Health and genetic integrity of the models are protected.
• Reallocation of labor and other institutional resources.
• Development of in-house diet maintenance protocols is eliminated.
• The same diet can be fed after delivery to the client.

Additional information on Teklad Custom Diets

Research Use

• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Osteoporosis
• Nutrition
• Diabetes mellitus
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Physiology
• Pharmacology

Diet Induced Obesity (DIO) Rodent Models

• Harlan has developed standard protocols for raising DIO HsdBlu:LE rats and C57BL/6NHsd mice
• Randomly selected mice and rats are fed Teklad irradiated custom research diets until approximately 14 weeks of age or as specified.
• Animals are provided ad libitum diet, automated water and weighed weekly.

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