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 ...

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.

A rack of mouse cages in an animal facility where mice are kept under highly standardized conditions. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

Brun Ulfhake, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, found that the act of moving lab mice from their home cage to a separate testing area was undermining his team’s efforts ...

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 ...

Therefore, these two novel cage-side methods can be used to quickly and objectively identify mice from a variety of signalments and housing conditions with alleviated and unalleviated postoperative ...

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 ...