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ITG is located about 45 miles south of Houston, Texas at 1004
South Velasco St. in Angleton. The facility consists of one 3,000
square foot building equipped with offices, one common laboratory
area, and instrument room. A separate 192 square foot building
houses our research animals.
ITG holds a radioactive materials license from the State of
Texas to handle a wide variety of radioisotopes. Our license
number is L05969.
Our radioanalytical equipment includes a variety of
instrumentation including an automated NaI gamma counter along
with several stand-alone NaI detectors, two germanium detectors
for gamma spectroscopy, a liquid scintillation counter, an alpha
spectroscopy system, dose calibrators, and many survey meters. A
Siemens gamma camera allows us to capture in vivo
images.
Our laboratory has a dedicated animal building complete with
HEPA-filtered cabinet for housing athymic mice. We own a variety
of rodent cage types including metabolic cages. ITG is registered
with the USDA as a Class R Research Facility under the Animal
Welfare Act. Our AWA certificate number is 74-R-0186.
Additionally, we have appropriate biological equipment for
growing cell lines such as CO2 incubator, -80oC
freezer, a certified Biological Safety Cabinet, steam autoclave,
and microscopes. A 96-well plate washer & reader allow us to
efficiently set up ELISA assays and polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis allows for protein characterization.
Additional equipment includes a PerkinElmer Optima 5300
inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectrophotometer,
two chemical fume hoods, an HP series 1100 HPLC with both UV and
radiometric detection, freeze dryer, rotary evaporator.
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