Welcome to Cardiovascular Research Core!
In addition to providing cutting-edge, user-friendly facilities and services for preclinical imaging and animal models or procedures of human diseases, the CVRC laboratory serves as a hub for education, method refinement and innovative applications for preclinical imaging and models of human disease. Our expertise is heart failure, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, lung injury, drug delivery and hemodynamic measurement. Our goal is to cater to the dynamic needs of researchers on campus and beyond, with highly skilled scientists ensuring rigorous and timely outcomes.
Cardiovascular Research Core (CRC)
All of our services are available for UIC faculty as well as external users. We would be happy to consult with you to plan an experiment, implement one of our rodent models of cardiovascular disease or assist you in developing an animal use protocol and/or grant application.
All of our services can be core-assisted, and echocardiography and electrocardiography can be self-directed. To initiate any new service (or Animal Use Protocol or RRC account) please contact us. You can also see what parameters we offer for each functional assessment service by clicking its name above.
Please note that both core-assisted and self-directed studies at the CRC are contingent upon prior approval of a PI’s Animal Use Protocol by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
