General types of housing mice in a laboratory setting include: conventional, specific pathogen free (SPF), and germ free. In conventional housing, no attempt is made to keep out adventitious microbial and parasitic organisms. Mice housed in this manner can be found in open-topped cages. Room ...
Age and diet shape the genetic architecture of body weight in diversity outbred mice. Elife. 2022;11: e64329. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Crabbe JC, Wahlsten D, Dudek BC. Genetics of mouse behavior: interactions with laboratory environment. Science. 1999;284:1670–2. ...
In laboratory animal facilities, it is a common code of practice to house female mice in groups. However, some experimental conditions require to house them individually, even though social isolation may impair their well-being. Therefore, we introduced a separated pair housing system and investigate...
studies, solitary mice are best housed at 23–25 °C, because this is 3–5 °C below the mouse thermoneutral zone and humans routinely live 3–5 °C below thermoneutrality, and because this generates a ratio of DEE to BMR of 1.6–1.9, mimicking the ratio found in free-living ...
While it only takes a few minutes to download and install apps, you can also use avirtual personal assistantlikeGoogle Assistantor Apple's Siri. Your experience with these voice-enabled, browser-based search engines probably won't be a match for what you'll get from a mobile app, but here...
Lifetime breeding studies in fully fed and dietary restricted female CFY Sprague-Dawley rats. 1. Effect of age, housing conditions and diet on fecundity. Mech. Ageing Dev. 33: 19–28 (1985). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Finn, C.A. Reproductive capacity and litter size in mice: ...
Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science 48, 1-7.Pritchett-Corning KR, Chang FT, Festing MFW. 2009. Breeding and housing laboratory rats and mice in the same room does not affect the growth or reproduction of either species. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 48:492-498....
Long-term individual housing in C57BL/6J and DBA/2 mice: assessment of behavioral consequences. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of individual housing on mouse behavior. The male mice of the C57BL/6J and DBA/2 strains were s... V Võikar,A Polus,E Vasar,...
For example, changes in the dominant lineages of the fecal microbiota were observed when mice were moved to different locations within the same facility (Friswell et al., 2010) and differences have been noted in the same strain bred in different centres (Hufeldt, Nielsen, Vogensen, Midtvedt,...
Because the genome of mice has evolved in an environment that includes all enrichment aspects used in environmental enrichment experiments (e.g., exercise, social interaction, ability to build nest, relatively larger space for exploration), we consider environmental enrichment as the baseline housing ...