Routine Surgical Modifications
Purchasing surgically modified animals from Hilltop offers several major advantages:
- Price
- Convenience
- Quality
- Rapid Turn-Around Time
- Support
Developing proficiency at rodent surgery is expensive, requiring specially designed instruments and facilities, and many hours to perfect. Hilltop surgeries are performed by qualified personnel and are professionally uniform. Careful attention to postoperative details insures that the animals arrive to your facility in stable condition. Hilltop can do it better.
In addition to routine preparations and cannulae implants, Hilltop also provides custom modifications to fit your protocol. Routine preparations include:
| Adrenalectomy | Nephrectomy (5/6 - Subtotal/Uremic Prep.) | Sciatic Nerve Section |
| Adrenal Demedulation | Nephrectomy | Thyroidectomy |
| Adrenal Denervation via Splanchnic Nerve Section | Oophorhysterectomoy (Ovaries Removed) | Thyriodectomy & Parathyroid Transplant |
| Castration | Ovariectomy | Thyro-parathyroidectomy |
| Hepatectomy (Subtotal) | Pancreatectomy (Subtotal) | Vagotomy (Unilateral) |
| Hypophysectomy | Parathyroidectomy (Thyroid Intact) | Vasectomy |
| Hysterectomy (Ovaries Intact) |
Additional services available:
- Individual I.D. numbers
- Tatoo numbering
- Preoperative and postoperative weight recordings
- Littermates
- Inbred strains
- Neonatal surgeries
- Animals over 250 grams