Department of Laboratory Animals 

Head: Ranko Stojkovic , PhD, DVM

phone/fax: +385 1 456 0992
e-mail: stojkov@irb.hr

Staff

Siniša Ivanković, PhD, DVM

Goran Goles (veterinary technician)

Visnja Novalic (veterinary technician)   

Maja Pokas (agricultural technician)

Tel. +385 1 456 0950

e-mail: plz@irb.hr

These unit breed inbreed strains of mice (BALB/cBkl, CBA/H, C3Hf/Bu, C57BL/Go, C57BL/6-Ly5, NOD, Hsd:ICR (CD-1)) for the research programs conducted mainly in Rudjer Boskovic Institute. In our animal unit two colonies of rats are developed from the Wistar stock, i.e. “Hyperserotoninemic rat” and “Wistar-Zagreb 5HT rat”. Both models are used in neuroscience research as rodent models for selected neuropsychiatric disorders as well as in related neuropsychopharmacological research.