New Combined Service: JAX® Speed Rederivation & JAX® Sperm Cryopreservation Service
JAX® NOTES Issue 506, Summer 2007
The health status of laboratory mice concerns researchers and laboratory animal veterinarians alike. To ensure a uniform health status within their animal facilities, most institutions follow stringent guidelines for importing and maintaining laboratory animals. Rederiving animals of undesirable health status is an important step in maintaining a high health status animal facility. We now offer a package that combines in vitro fertilization (IVF) rederivation with sperm cryopreservation for investigators who want to eliminate specific pathogens from their breeding colonies.
Our JAX® Speed Rederivation Service is applicable for mice strains with transgenes, targeted mutations, or chemically-induced mutations on the most commonly used genetic backgrounds.* We can quickly rederive your strain using IVF and offer you sperm cryopreservation with three years of liquid nitrogen storage at no extra cost. Now you can protect your mouse colony through cryopreservation while cost-effectively rederiving it.
To take advantage of this exceptional value, call 800-422-MICE (6423) (International: +1-207-288-6294), or e-mail jaxservices@jax.org. For more details, see our Web site.
*The most commonly used background strains include the following: C57BL/6J, FVB/NJ, NOD/ShiLtJ, BALB/cByJ, BALB/cJ, DBA/1J, DBA/2J, C3H/HeJ, hybrids of these strains, and B6;129 hybrids.
