Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity: Rodent Metabolism Phenotyping Core (RMPC)

The RMPC facility is located in Center for Comparative Medicine in the basement barrier of the Lurie Buildings at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The mission of the RMPC is to provide Northwestern University investigators with standardized, high quality metabolic phenotyping services to assist their characterization of rodent models of diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders.

Current services offered

·         Body composition

·         Glucose tolerance test

·         Insulin tolerance test

·         Glucose-stimulated insulin secretion

Future services will be offered

·         Food intake, energy expenditure and activity (Lab Master System)

·         Primary adipocytes isolation

·         IV insulin stimulation and tissue collection

·         Islet isolation

Application form: one time application form is needed, please fill out and bring to us upon your first usage.

Rodent transfer information between campuses

Location and Contacts

Director: Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD; Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, and Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity

Associate Director/Manager: Suhuan Liu, MD, PhD; Research Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, and Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity

Email: rmpc@northwestern.edu
Facility location: Lurie B-509

Acknowledgement: It is important to properly acknowledge the RMPC in your publications. Acknowledgement helps us demonstrate our contribution to the NU research community, and helps our effort to secure continued funding, acquire more instruments and provide new services.