Change from a mouse IVC rack to a rat, large mouse or hamster IVC system without buying all new equipment. Another advantage ofMACSis that it can change as your rodent research needs change. If your demand changes from mice to rats, with theMACSmodular IVC you can quickly and easily chang...
A mouse breeding cage is the best example of the disparity of thermal needs that can occur, even in one mouse cage. Day-old mice will relocate themselves along a thermal gradient by rolling and twisting until they reach their preferred temperature of 36–38 °C19, a temperature range similar...
Adequate resting space was defined as an area in which each of the rodents in the cage could lie down either curled up or stretched out without contacting fecal material: approximately 25 cm2 for a mouse and 150 cm2 for a rat. During evaluations, cages were disturbed as little as possible...
Rapid ammonia build-up in small individually ventilated mouse cages cannot be overcome by adjusting the amount of bedding Article Open access 18 May 2023 Proper micro-environment alleviates mortality in laboratory mouse breeding induced by litter overlap and older dams Article Open access 17 August...
The animals hailed from Cambodia, where, according to a federal indictment, many had been plucked from the wild, transported in metal cages to a breeding facility, and given false paperwork identifying them as bred in captivity—what an official with the US Fish and Wildlife Service calls “mon...
Breeding and rearing of the mice was done in the same facility as the trial under standardized condi- tions. The mice were housed under specified-pathogen-free conditions in individually ventilated cages (Type II long;Tecniplast, Buggugiate, Italy) in groups of three on silicate bedding (Tiger...