Assay Services provides up-to-date, efficient and cost-effective hormone measurements in a centralized facility for the Primate Center's core staff, affiliated scientists and the primate community at large. Our versatile approach helps investigators find effective and affordable solutions to a host of endocrine challenges. You can request assays or assay development from our service at any time by following our First 5 Steps in Requesting Assay Service or by contacting Toni Ziegler, Ph.D. Our current listing of endocrine procedures and hormone assays will give you up-to-date information on available services.

An additional part of Assay Services' mission involves continuing developments of new methodology and techniques to meet the progressive research requirements of investigators. These developments include non-invasive, non-isotopic assays, and endocrine analyses from fecal samples that enable investigators to achieve stress-free sampling from animals in captivity. We also have well-established techniques to monitor the endocrinology of reproduction and the reproductive status of primates in the wild. Our expansion of assays for metabolic and bone physiology biomarkers is proving especially useful for studying aging in primates.

The following items provide useful information regarding assay services and services available to investigators:

The First 5 Steps in Requesting Assay Service

Sample handling and preparation

Our current hormone assays and procedures

An introduction and some background history to Assay Services

Quality control

Information on our next lab meeting