Texas A&M Rodent Preclinical and Phenotyping Core

The Texas A&M Preclinical Phenotyping Core (RPPC) offers preclinical houses various instruments to measure and quantify mouse physiology and behavior to help you at every step in your translational research.  We offer a wide variety of state-of-the-art equipment to help expedite comprehensive research in many fields, including Behavior, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Chemical, Metabolic, and skeletalmuscular. Training and experimental support is available.

At the TPPC, we offer fee-for-service analysis and access to a large quantity of shared workspace instrumentation.

Equipment

Behavioral/Skeletomuscular

• Coulbourn Habitest System
• Noldus Open Field
• Noldus Three Chamber Sociability
• Noldus Barnes Maze
• Noldus Radial Arm Maze
• Water Maze
• Rotarod Test (Both Rats or mice)
• DigiGait
• Chatillon Force Measurement

Clinical Pathology

• VetScan HM5 Color Hematology System
• DxC 700 AU (Serum/Plasma/Urine Chemistry)
• OsmoPro Multi-Sample Micro-Osmometer

Cardiovascular

• ECGenie
• Hatteras Multi-Channel Blood Pressure Analysis System

Metabolic

• TSE PhenoMaster
• Hatteras Metabolic Cage
• EchoMRI-100
• EchoMRI-900

Histology

• Leica ASP300 Tissue Processor
• Leica CM1950 Cryostat
• Leica EG1150 Tissue Embedding
• Leica RM2165 Rotary Microtome
• Leica HistoCore SPECTRA Workstation: H&E, PAS, PAS-Alcian Blue

Protein

• Cytek Aurora Flow Cytometer
• Bio-Rad Bio-Plex Luminex
• Protein Simple Jess Automated Western Blot System

Rodent Imaging

• Vevo 3100 Ultrasound
• Stortz Endoscope

Other

• TSE Whole Body Inhalation Chamber: Toxicant (gas, vapor, and aerosol) exposure in their own cage (16 cages).
• TubeWriter 360: Print anything on various sizes of tubes, vials, microscope slides, and more.