Capabilities
Our AAALAC-accredited facilities offer a range of flexible in vivo solutions for small-rodent research:
- Reconfigurable private holding and procedure rooms are available to meet your research needs as they evolve.
- Shared holding rooms with controlled access are available for smaller-scale requirements.
- Surgical, imaging, procedure, and tissue-culture suites can be reserved on demand.
Both our private and shared rooms are fully equipped with Innovive’s advanced filtration racks, offering individually ventilated disposable cages, along with an extensive range of equipment and instrumentation to support critical procedures. Additionally, all suites feature 24/7 secure access and after-hours monitoring to ensure continuous oversight.
Holding rooms
SmartLabs’ animal housing facilities are carefully designed to meet the animals’ physiological needs and ensure their well-being, with strict protocols in place to prevent unauthorized access and protect against any adverse impacts on the animals. We provide:
- Innovive individually ventilated caging systems
- Disposable cage bottoms
- Acidified or ultra-purified water bottles
- Enrichment
- RFID cards and census management system
- Temperature, lighting, and humidity control
- Veterinary care
- Regulatory oversight
Procedure rooms
SmartLabs' animal procedure rooms are fully equipped to support a wide range of invasive procedures, with seamless access to adjacent animal holding rooms for post-procedure care. We offer:
- Biosafety cabinet
- Digital anesthesia system
- Digital euthanasia system
- Read-to-use disinfectant
- Carcass bags
- Small secure locking storage units
- Lab bench and chairs
Imaging suite
Our imaging suite is equipped with an extensive range of high-end equipment, enabling our customers to conduct their research or medical diagnostics without the burden of heavy capital investments. We provide:
- Revvity IVIS SpectrumCT
- Bioluminescence
- Fluorescence
- MicroCT
- Xrad 320 w/OptiMAX
- Xray irradiation of tissues, cells, and live animals
- X-Ray and optical imaging
Surgical suite
Our surgical suite is outfitted to support all veterinary procedures essential to your research, thoughtfully designed to the highest standards for optimal infection control. We offer:
- Dedicated specimen preparation area
- Digital anesthesia system
- Digital euthanasia system
- Aseptic atmosphere for survival surgeries
- Surgical lights
- Downdraft table
- Surgical scopes and monitors
- Biosafety cabinet, stackable CO2 incubators, freezers, water bath, refrigerated centrifuge, TC microscope, hand wash sink, and benchtop work surface
- Surgical tables and chairs
- Stereotaxic equipment
- ICU recovery chambers
- Thermacare incubator
Necropsy
SmartLabs’ necropsy suite is designed to facilitate advanced postmortem analysis, supporting cutting-edge research needs. We provide:
- Biosafety cabinet
- Downdraft procedure table
- Large-scale euthanasia station
Aquatic research holding room
Our specialized aquatic facilities support zebrafish research. We provide:
- Climate-controlled, remote system monitoring
- Up to eighty 4L-tank capacity
- Breeding/husbandry capabilities
Amenities and equipment
- Water bath
- benchtop centrifuge
- Cell counter
- CO2 incubator
- Cold Storage
- Leica microscope
- isoflurane anesthesia system
- CO2 euthanasia system
- Ducted BSC
- Precision Xray XRad320
- Downdraft table
- Surgical microscope
- Mini thermacage
- Stereotaxic equipment
