Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

Nest boxes can provide a dark retreat from high light intensity within ... Van Lith, H.A. Individually ventilated cages: beneficial for mice and men? Contemp. Top. Lab. Anim.

(Moderator) "We rarely see this problem in rats but relatively often in mice ... incidence of wet cages has become negligible. When we have an occasional problem cage we reduce the amount of sawdust ...

The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institution in Bar Harbor, has developed a high-tech system for ... to launch a home-cage mouse monitoring system that integrates with ...

Inter-male aggression in mice continues to challenge laboratory animal husbandry ... Typically, 1–2 mice per cage were responsible for the majority of aggression, and DC was generally high, with ...

Like house mice, the laboratory animals are flight animals ... Three to six mice live in each cage, depending on their weight. The cages are 14 centimetres high and are covered by a grating, which the ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers introduced the first two mouse models of autism, each carrying a genetic mutation linked to autism in humans. They claimed that these mice behaved like autistic humans, ...

Mice hear high-frequency sounds and ultrasound ... Lipman, N.S. Microenvironmental conditions in isolator cages: an important research variable. Lab Anim. (NY) 21, 23–26 (1992).

The AI-powered home-cage monitoring solution is poised ... 2024) – The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical ...

After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted ...

Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

The Laboratory of Epilepsy and Emotional Behavior ... Using a range of genetically valid mouse models of epilepsy (or epilepsy risk), we employ state of the art home cage behavioral monitoring ...