Supervisor: Prof. Ph.D. Silvana Lima Gorniak

CEPTOX is an extension of the Department of Pathology, on the Administrative Campus of Pirassununga. This Research Center was created in 1988 with the intention of better training undergraduate and postgraduate students in ​​Veterinary Toxicology. CEPTOX comprises an area of ​​1138 m2 of built area, in which the well-equipped laboratories are inserted, and the rooms for postgraduate students and teachers, as well as rooms for the deposit of handling materials with animals, a cattle crush; bioterium of mice and rabbits; in addition, there are three distinct buildings where goats are raised and an experimental aviary. To accommodate postgraduate students and researchers who develop their research at the Pirassununga Campus better, this Research Center has a wide residency. Still, CEPTOX belongs to a pasture of approximately two bushels, where cattle are kept. For the handling of farm animals, CEPTOX even has a tractor with a cart, which allows independence in the treatment of animals that are there. This laboratory makes it possible to carry out research in toxicology (including immunotoxicology), pathology and pharmacology, in the following domestic animal species: cattle, goats, pigs and rabbits, as well as birds.

With the support of the Research Dean of our Institution, a major refurbishment is being carried out in the bioterium; in this sense, when finalized, CEPTOX will be the supplier of mice for experimentation, therefore, there will be no more breeding of these animals in São Paulo. This fact will provide a considerable improvement in the operationalization of rodents in this Department in São Paulo, since it will make available a large area (previously destined for breeding), for experimentation with animals, as well as the maintenance of these in a much more adequate way.

Also, it should be noted that CPTRAS facilities (infrastructure and equipment park) have been used by some postgraduate students of this Program, which in addition to carrying out their research projects have also been assisting in the reception and care of wild birds apprehended by the environmental and/or municipal police of Baixada Santista in addition to IBAMA/Santos.