Portal South - our offer
Portal South is responsible for importing/exporting animals, biological products, embryos, sperm, etc. from all over the world to users at PKL. In addition, cryopreservation/re-derivation related services, such as embryos/sperm isolation, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer are available at the unit.
Our Objectives
- Promote translational research and improve the collaboration between KI, Karolinska University Hospital, Region Stockholm (RS) and other national and international collaborators.
- Developement, production and cryopreservation of valuable genetically modified animal models.
- Apply the 3R principles by reducing the number of animals in breeding and prevent the drift of the genetic modified strains (refine) via cryopreservation and biobank.
Our Services
- Import/export live animals/frozen embryos and sperm from all over the world.
- Import/export biological samples.
- Apply and obtain all necessary permissions for import/export.
- Cryopreservation and rederivation.
- Embryo/sperm isolation, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryos transfer.
- Cleansing of different strains.
Your benefits
Cryopreservation
- Minimize genetic drift caused by long term breeding.
- Reduce the usage of animals and the cost for maintaining colonies.
- Preventing the spontaneous loss of phenotype.
- Preventing the loss of genetic modified strains in case of infections.
Rederivation
- Produce high standard SPF (specific pathogen free) mice.
- Promote international collaborations by importing/exporting between countries within EU and outside EU.
- Facilitating animal transfer from lower to higher barrier between different facilities.
Import/export embryo/sperm
- Eliminate the stress factor when importing live animals.
- Minimize the risk of infection from different airports.
- Simplify the import/export procedure.
Worldwide import/export
Your animals or frozen embryos/sperm are professionally and safely handled.
Cryobank and freezing maintenance
Your animal strains are properly cryo-preserved in biobank and stored safely.
Equipment at Portal South Core Facility.