Applied & specialist
Vivarium
Over 70 environmentally controlled clean rooms for small animal models
- clean rooms
- 70+
- Listed methods
- 6
- Species
- 4
Animal welfare and data quality are the same problem viewed from two directions. A stressed animal is a poor model, which is why environmental control and health monitoring are treated as study parameters rather than as housekeeping.
More than 70 clean rooms hold small animal models under controlled temperature, humidity, lighting and ventilation, with continuous health monitoring, body weight checks and feed and water quality evaluation.
The facility supports in vivo work in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits — pharmacokinetic studies, and toxicity and efficacy assessments — alongside the toxicology programme that depends on it.
Overview
Vivarium, in overview.
Discipline group
Applied & specialist
Capability groups
2
Capabilities
Two capability groups. 6 listed methods.
Every method below runs inside the same quality system, against the same archive, with the same chain of custody. Study designs are assembled from this catalogue rather than improvised around it.
Housing & care
3 methods
- Environmental control — temperature, humidity, lighting, ventilation
- Health monitoring and body weight checks
- Feed and water quality evaluation
Small animal studies
3 methods
- In vivo experiments — mice, rats, guinea pigs
- Pharmacokinetic studies
- Toxicity and efficacy assessments
Specifications
On the record.
Guideline numbers, test species and instrument names are reproduced exactly as the laboratory publishes them, because a method is only portable across borders if it can be named precisely.
Test species
4 listed- Mice
- Rats
- Guinea pigs
- Rabbits
Under accreditation
What governs this work.
Vivarium operates inside the quality system audited under the certifications listed here.
- OECD GLP
Good Laboratory Practice certification
OECD GLPNGCMA, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Compliance with OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice, the basis on which study reports are accepted across all OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data countries.
View the certificate
Runs alongside
Nothing here works alone.
Most programmes cross three or four divisions. On one campus, under one quality system, that crossing costs a corridor rather than a shipment.
- 01ToxicologySafety studies evaluating acute and longer-term effects, including toxicity, irritation and sensitisation, to support product safety and regulatory assessment
- 07Custom StudiesFor the programme no standard guideline was written to cover
- 03ChemistryAnalytical chemistry that underwrites every other division's numbers