Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

To overcome these problems, researchers are turning more to automated systems that monitor mice in their home cages, where they are least stressed. This improves the animals’ welfare ...

The mice are kept in see-through plastic cages with an area of at least 370 square centimetres. Three to six mice live in each cage, depending on their weight. The cages are 14 centimetres high and ...

Non-CNRC investigators also must get authorization from CNRC security to enter the CNRF as described in CLAMS Use and Measures. Transfer your mice to the CLAMS cages. Learn how to fill feeders and ...

or two experiments with up to 16 and 12 mice, respectively, to be run concurrently. The two systems have different configurations: automated food access control and telemetry are available on the ...

In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through 180 days old in ...

(Moderator) "We rarely see this problem in rats but relatively often in mice, especially in C57Bl/6 and Tg strains with C57Bl/6. It seems to be worse if the animals are nervous or have litters. Since ...