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NIES's Site Layout
 Animal Laboratory
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The animal laboratory has two facilities, in which environmental
conditions are controlled. Facility I breeds conventional and
specific pathogen-free laboratory animals and has complex gas
exposure chambers. Facility II also has a conventional laboratoryanimal
breeding unit and is useful for studies of the effects of heavy
metals and residual chemical exposure. The Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Imager (NMRI) for living organisms images living
bodies and active metabolic functions of humans and animals. |
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Radioisotope & Biotechnology Laboratory
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The Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory is used to develop
applications of recombinant-DNA technology for environmental
protection and to study the fate and effects of recombinant
organisms in ecosystems. This laboratory was completed in FY
1993. The specialized instruments of the laboratory, including a
peptide sequencer and a DNA sequencer, are actively used. |
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Soil Environment Laboratory
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This is the soil laboratory, which contains large lysimeters, special
growth chambers for studies of pesticide and heavy-metal effects,
and soil-temperature-controlled chambers. Growth effects of
pollutants and reclamation of contaminated soil are also studied. |
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Biotron
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The botanical laboratory complex consists of two major facilities
to evaluate the effects of various detailed environmental scenarios
on plants and soils. Both facilities include experimental chambers
in which light, temperature and humidity can be precisely
controlled. Facility I also facilitates exposure of the experimental
plants and soils to pollutant gases under these controlled conditions.
Facility II has 2 simulators that permit the creation of microenvironments
stratified from the soil up through the overlying
atmosphere. |
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Ecotron/Environmental Health Research Laboratory
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This laboratory includes a variety of facilities to evaluate pollution
effects on community health. The Noise Effects Laboratory has
one anechoic room and three sound-proof rooms for testing the
psycho-physiological effects of noise on health. The Community
Health Laboratory provides facilities for epidemiological studies
on humans and experimental studies on animals to evaluate the
effects of environmental pollutants. |
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Experimental Farm
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The institute's experimental farm is 4 km west of the main grounds.
The farm's facilities include a cultivated field, an experimental
field, lysimeters, a greenhouse, a tool storage shed, an observation
tower, a remnant natural forest and offices. This farm serves to
test results obtained in the indoor controlled-environment biological
laboratories of the Institute; to evaluate the environmental
maintenance functions of plant and soil ecosystems; and to supply
plant material, particularly for use in bioassays and bioremediation,
to researchers at the Institute. |
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Environmental Risk Research Laboratory
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The Environmental Risk Research Laboratory is the core research facility of Research Center for Environmental Risk. In the Laboratory extensive research activities on ecological effects, human health effects and environmental exposure, as well as collection, analysis and dissemination of related information, are being conducted. The building is equipped with several special facilities including fresh water and marine water exposure systems for ecotoxicological research, breeding room for laboratory animals, and instruments including a liquid chromatograph -tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of environmental chemicals and a confocal laser scanning microscopy for cell biology. |
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