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.

(Barley) "Cage flooding can be a serious problem in ventilated caging systems with automatic watering for mice. We have purchased Bio-Serv tunnels that hang off the top of the cage plus Tecniplast ...

Transfer your mice to the CLAMS cages. Learn how to fill feeders and interrupt the measurements to refill feeders. Learn how to stop the experiment at the end and prepare your cages for washing. Fill ...

In one experiment, Stowers painted the backs of male mice with urine and introduced them into the cages of knockout mice. The knockout mice failed to show aggression toward their new cage mates. “It ...

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 ...

Infra-red beams are projected at 0.5" spacing across the cage on 2 levels. During movement, the beams are broken by the mouse, and this sends signals to the central computer. The beams can detect ...

In 70 percent of the studies with large positive effects, mice were introduced into enriched cages at 21 to 30 days of age, and in 60 percent, mice remained in the enriched cages between 30 and 60 ...