Stables and Animal Facility

The service has two locations: the Central Animal Facility on the Anchieta Campus and the Animal Facility in the basement of the University Institute of Biomedical Technologies on the Ofra Campus. Each location is registered as a breeding center, supply center, and user center by the competent body of the Government of the Canary Islands in the Register of Livestock Farms of the Canary Islands (Central Animal Facility: ES 38 023 0024514; Animal Facility: E-TF-023-28562).

Applications

Its main areas of application are the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to housing and selling laboratory animals, this facility provides users with laboratories and operating rooms for biomedical research projects. It also offers technical assistance for animal procedures, biological waste management, and the supply of feed and wood shavings. Notable applications include:

• Advice for the development of research projects with experimental animals.
• Sale, breeding and maintenance of rats and mice.
• Rabbit care.
• Sale of pregnant female rats and mice at different stages of gestation.
• Inoculation, extraction, and scheduled surgery in rodents.
• Immunization and blood collection from rabbits.
• Immobilization and restraint of animals.
• Animal anesthesia.
• Supply of feed and wood shavings.
• Management of biological remains and carcasses of research animals.
• Cryopreservation of mouse semen.
• Rental of operating rooms and laboratories.

Equipment

Scientific infrastructure

Central Stables:

• Specific pathogen-free zone
• 2 Operating rooms, one of them located in the pathogen-free zone.
• 1 Laboratory
• 12 Rodent breeding and maintenance rooms
• 2 Lagomorph maintenance rooms in a controlled environment
• 1 Frog/Fish Maintenance Room
• 1 Insectarium

Animalarium:

• Specific pathogen-free zone
• 3 Operating Rooms, one of them located in the pathogen-free zone.
• 1 Laboratory
• 1 Transgenesis Laboratory
• 8 Rodent breeding and maintenance rooms
• 2 Lagomorph maintenance rooms in a controlled environment
• 2 Frog/Fish Maintenance Rooms
• 1 Pig maintenance room

In addition, both centers have a large area for cleaning and sterilizing equipment and several warehouses for equipment, feed, and wood shavings.

Catalog of animal species and strains

• Rattus norvegicus: Rat.
  • Sprague-dawley, OFA/SD designation (IOOS Caw).
• Mus musculus: Mouse.
  • Swiss CD1.
  • C57BL/6.
  • 129S2/SvPasIco.
  • BALB/c.
  • FVB.
  • db/db

The infrastructure is also designed to house animals not produced by the service: other strains of rats and mice, Oryctolagus cuniculus (rabbits) and Xenopus laevis (frogs).

Financing

The infrastructure for this service has been partially financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the following projects:

1. Project number: EIS 2020 14
2. State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016. Project UNLL13-3E-1984
3. Program State Fund for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016. Project UNLL13-3E-1648 and PMultiregional Operational Program for a Knowledge-Based Economy, period 2007-2013). UNLL Project 10-3E-691
4. The infrastructure for this service has been partially financed by the Strategic Grant Plan of the Island Council of Tenerife through the program "Equipment of the Animal Facility of the Institute of Biomedical Technologies ITB". Year 2024.

Quality certifications

This service has been certified by AENOR according to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. Spanish | English