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Introduction of Laboratory Animal Resources Bank (LAREB)

Kyung-Ku Kang¹, Min-Soo Seo¹, Soo-Eun Sung¹, Joo-Hee Choi¹, SI-Joon Lee¹, Min-Kyung Sung¹,

Kil-Soo Kim¹

¹Laboratory Animal Center, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation (DGMIF), Daegu 41061, Korea

Laboratory animal Resources Bank (LAREB) is national infrastructure from National Institute of Food and Drug Safety

Evaluation (NIFDS, Korea) to utilize resources of laboratory animals that have been experimentally intervened. After
finishing the research, collecting resources from disused laboratory animals and sharing them with other researchers

will make the national infrastructure to reduce the research cost and shorten the research period. LAREB receives
donated and distributes resources through the core facility (DGMIF, Korea). Main resources are rare laboratory

animals, long-term drug treated animals, rare substance treated animals and animals that have undergone difficult
surgery. Donated resources can be classified several resource types such as formalin fixed tissue, paraffin block,

H&E slide and frozen tissue which called bio-resources from laboratory animals. LAREB provides resource
information through online and the researcher searches for needed resources and requests a distribution. By

operating the LAREB, we expect to strengthen research competitiveness, create diverse results with one study, create
new industries for high value-added laboratory animals and bio-resources. And we hope to create new research

environment for using of ethical laboratory animals.