Abstract
Problems of husbandry, anesthesia, tranquilization, physical restraint while awake, prevention of disease transmission, fluid and electrolyte balance, and postoperative care have now been overcome enabling one to make a choice of primate animal subject based on the scientific merit of the species available. The Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) was planned to fill the need for nonhuman primate animals and appropriate related facilities in a large biomedical research community (Greater New York). Innovative methods of husbandry, caging, cost accounting, and space utilization have reduced dramatically the cost of experimentation with primates, making them competitive with other animals. A program of simultaneous and sequential utilization of animals by more than one investigator has resulted in an average utilization of each animal for 6.5 programs per year. The Laboratory now functions as a truly interinstitutional program providing a unique resource and a possible prototype for shared facilities elsewhere.
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