Live animals, frozen ebmryos or sperm can be received at NBRP rat. Please read these instructions carefully and fill out the deposition application form on this page. After reviewing this application, we will contact you.

NOTE: If your rat strain will be preserved in our repository, we need either 3 pairs of live animals (shipping from abroad, 10 pairs if shipping form inside Japan), 200 2-cell embryos or in case of transgenic or congenic animals, sperm straws from 5 different donors.

Please download, sign and send this MTA in TWO COPIES AFTER you have received our confirmation, that we can accept and preserve your rat strain at NBRP rat. If the capacity allows us to integrate your rat strain into NBRP rat, we usually need 3 pairs of 4 -5 week old animals (10 pairs for domestic depositors). Further details will be send and discussed with you after we will have decided whether or not your strain can be integrated into our repository.

If there are any further questions or more detailed information needed, please contact us .

After receiving the MTA, we will contact you with the details on how and when tho ship the animals. We will cover all shipping costs. Unless requested otherwise, three pairs (ten pairs for domestic depositors) which have an age of 4 - 5 weeks should be send.

Frozen embryos have to be shipped in a special transportation box that can be supplied on request.

After all preparation and paper work will have been done, please ship the animals to the address beelow.

Address information:
Institute of Laboratory Animals, Graduate School of Medicine,
Kyoto University
Yoshidakonoe-cho Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Tel : +81-75-753-9318, Fax : +81-75-753-4409
E-mail : nbrprat@anim.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp