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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Place Mouse Traps Where the Mice Are Mice tend to ... Peanut butter on a cracker makes good squirrel bait. Check the cage ...

Because rats and mice are better able to take control of their microenvironment in an enriched cage, macroenvironmental conditions become much less influential. Such macroenvironmental conditions ...

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 ...

Most of the mice held at the Max Planck Institutes come from the Institutes’ own breeding programmes, though some are also obtained from professional breeders of lab animals. Trained animal keepers ...

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 ...

Those who support or even promote the use of animals in experiments will often talk about ‘gold standards’ of science and ...

and REM sleep by avoiding the need for head fixation and allowing mice to move freely in their home cage during recordings.” Their findings highlighted the critical role of norepinephrine ...