User agreement and responsibilities
PNI responsibilities
In a typical collaborative project, PNI takes care of wipe tests for experiments and general laboratory consumables.
- Autoradiography: ex vivo experiment support, protocol design, ³H-standard, cassettes and film.
- In vivo imaging: animal housing coordination, imaging preparation and image acquisition.
- Cryostat: OCT gel and glass slides.
- Liquid scintillation counting: tubes and liquid scintillation fluid.
- Data analysis involvement defined case by case.
Collaboration partner responsibilities
The collaboration partner normally covers project-specific scientific and biological aspects behind the study.
- Tissue samples, material for ex vivo evaluation, disease models and animal treatments.
- Design, purchase or delivery of radiotracers.
- Funding for the studies.
- Valid animal licence from the Canton of Bern for in vivo studies.
- Animal housing costs discussed with and charged by the Experimental Animal Center.
Additional support: If necessary, PNI may help contact SWAN for radiotracer production or assist with grant-proposal text covering the proposed imaging studies.
Certification note: Do-it-yourself access requires appropriate certification for radioisotope handling where relevant. LKT1 certification is required for handling rodents.