Laboratory staff: the head of the vivarium; 7 workers who take care for the laboratory animals; veterinary.
The head of the department – Maria I. Borys
The vivarium is a scientific – productive subdivision, of our University.
One of the main methods of cognition in modern medicine, veterinary and biology is experimenting with the laboratory animals. The results of biological investigations depend on the quality of the laboratory animals, with the requirements constantly increasing according to the scientific development. That is why the important task of the vivarium is to organize rearing and keeping the laboratory animals.
The University vivarium produces laboratory animals; mice, rats, guinea pigs, Vietnam pigs and provides the research for our departments and central scientific-research laboratory. On the basis of which 21 Candidates’ and 6 Doctoral theses are being carried out. 2201 rats, 164 mice, 23 guinea pigs were used in 2006.
The usage of Vietnam laboratory pigs has become the novelty in the teaching process and experimental work at the department of General Surgery with topographic anatomy and orthopedics with minimally invasive endoscopic technologies and surgical disciplines of Faculty of Post-Graduate education as well as students’ scientific societies.
According to the data of 2006, 71 laboratory pigs and 18 rabbits, reared on the base of ‘Chervona Kalyna’, were used.
