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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The whistleblower alleged that on multiple occasions, mice had been found dead—in varying degrees of decomposition or partially eaten by cagemates—in cages with empty water bottles, even though UMKC’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...