Animal Islets

Prodo Labs has equipment and experience in processing high quality islets from many different species and offers these islet preparations to investigators needing them. The following lists the different types of species that can currently be processed in Prodo Labs non-human pancreas processing lab.

Rat Islets
Standard source is from outbred Sprague Dawley rats.
Islets from specific strains can be requested

Porcine Islets
Current porcine source is from standard farm pigs locally available.
Pancreases from specific porcine herds can be requested and processed into islets for research upon request

Cynomolgus Monkey islets
Current Cyno pancreases are obtained from an active facility that runs a culling program so that only the pancreas is obtained from the donor reducing costs and use of Cyno monkeys that would only be sacrificed for their pancreases
Islet processing from specific Cyno colonies can be arranged

Processing other species of islets can be arranged

As with human islets, Prodo Labs performs acute quality control tests at the time of processing that are available for each islet shipment. More specific islet testing can be arranged for each shipment.

Contact Prodo Labs for more specific information regarding animal islets.