Architeture optimization at IPEN animal facility in order to improve the welfare and the quality of the animals employed at radiopharmaceutical tests
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2009
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INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR ATLANTIC CONFERENCE; MEETING ON NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS, 9th; MEETING ON REACTOR PHYSICS AND THERMAL HYDRAULICS, 16th; MEETING ON NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, 1st
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The production and the issue of high quality laboratory animals are essentials for the accomplishment of
vanguard scientific research, with reproducibility and universality. The quality of those animals depends, largely,
of the available facilities for their production and lodging, to assure the demanded sanitary control and animals’
well being, in agreement with the ethical principles that control the activity. The facilities also have to fill out
other requirements, such as: the functionality of the environments to make possible the suitable and efficient
handling of the animals, facilitating the execution of the routine activities; the respect to ergonomic principles to
provide a safe environment and the operators’ well being. The facilities design is of vital importance so that the
mentioned requirements can be reached. The project of the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN)
Animal House Facilities was accomplished in the year of 1964. However, by that time there were not the current
recommendations with respect to the sanitary, genetic and environmental controls. The facility was planned with
the objective of being a production unit and a local for keeping of defined animals from sanitary, genetic and
environmental point of view. Nevertheless, the original unit drawing presents an unsuitable distribution of the
area where animals are stockpiled and different activities are performed. The Animal House Facilities occupies
an area of 840 m2
, with one pavement, where the production areas and the stock of original animal models of the
own institution are distributed, as well as the maintenance of animals from other national or foreigner
institutions. It supplies rats and mice for biological tests of radiopharmaceutical lots, produced in IPEN, before
they be sent to hospitals and clinics spread out in Brazil, for use in Nuclear Medicine. It also supplies rats and
mice for tests of odontologic materials, for tests with growth hormones and for researches of new
radiopharmaceuticals, among others applications. Many of the animals models produced in IPEN are unique in
Brazil and they constitute, therefore, an important patrimony that should be preserved. This paper describes the
activities that have been executed in Animal House Facilities of IPEN, including the refurbishment project and
the adaptation of the facilities.
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LAINETTI, ELIZABETH B.F.; PASSOS, LUIZ A.C.; NASCIMENTO, NANCI. Architeture optimization at IPEN animal facility in order to improve the welfare and the quality of the animals employed at radiopharmaceutical tests. In: INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR ATLANTIC CONFERENCE; MEETING ON NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS, 9th; MEETING ON REACTOR PHYSICS AND THERMAL HYDRAULICS, 16th; MEETING ON NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, 1st, September 27 - October 2, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Proceedings... Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/16577. Acesso em: 30 Dec 2025.
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