The 2011 edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals includes new recommendations for the amount of floor space that should be provided to breeding mice. When pairs or trios of ...

The number of air changes per hour (ACH), an important index for individually ventilated cages (IVC), strongly affects the cage microenvironment and the health of laboratory animals. The objective of ...

We sought to investigate if varying levels of bedding had an effect on intra-cage ammonia levels in individually ventilated mouse cages (Euro Standard Types II and III). Employing a routine 2 week ...

All evaluated cages housed rodents that were assigned to animal use protocols approved by the IACUC of Wright State University, an institution accredited by the Association for the Assessment and ...

A mouse in its own house is not the same as a mouse on the move The living conditions of lab mice affect their behavior, their brains and, ultimately, the results of experiments involving them, ...