Abstract:
The Institutes of Health Research are the result of the Association of the teaching hospitals and researchers of the National Health system, Universities and other public and private research centres. Its aim is to conduct a transnational research of the highest quality, so that all the knowledge generated from Biomedical Research is finally translated into the treatment and prevention of diseases, and ultimately in the improvement of the population's health and quality of life.
The aforementioned institutes are made up of different platforms, which include the Animal Housing and the Animal Research Area, and within this platform is the Experimental Surgery Unit that, in general, aims to develop projects of biomedical research, and from the teaching perspective, organize and give support to the realization of training courses of Surgical technical, in minimally invasive surgery and anaesthetic techniques among others.
To carry out these surgical practices, it is necessary, on one hand, to have animal models that resemble the human being. Nowadays the most used models are the pig and the miniature pig, for which it is necessary to have an animal house facility where they can hold those speci...