Careful instruction of the animal care takers can prevent the following hazards ... People I know who do use automatic drinkers for mice and rats have cages with a drainage hole in the floor. The edge ...

Cages with automated monitoring systems ... affects the behaviour of identical populations of mice receiving equivalent routine care. The results were somewhat alarming 8.

Mouse cages should have sufficient height to permit ... Dawkins, M.S. in UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals 7th edn (ed Poole, T.) (Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK ...

The Cardiovascular Research Institute Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Core (MMPC) uses the Sable (Sable Systems International) Promethion cage system for single-mouse whole body respirometry, body weight ...

Institutions that receive Public Health Service (PHS) funding and conduct research using live vertebrate animals are required by law to have an Institutional Animal Care and Use ... to the staff and ...

Mice in the walls make a scratching and scrabbling sound and may only venture out at night, making it hard to determine what animal is causing the noise. Mice can be lured out of walls with food ...

Scientists have discovered a novel way to lengthen the 'healthspan' of a women's ovaries -- improving maintenance of the ovaries and preventing key age-related changes in ovarian function. 'Healthspan ...

A small aquarium filled with freshwater fish is sufficient for a 2- or 3-year-old who can handle the daily feedings (and who has an adult willing to clean the tank), while the res ...

Fancy mice are a popular choice for ... They require spacious cages and regular dust baths, adding a bit of variety to pet care routines. Dwarf hamsters are tiny but full of energy, much like ...

Now that wireless gaming mice are just as fast and feature packed as their wired counterparts, going wireless can be a smart move, giving you greater flexibility as a gamer. But before you cut ...

Courtesy of Maggie Bartlett via Wikimedia Commons  What if you could make your skin transparent and then turn it opaque again? Soon enough, that might be a possibility. And if you’re a lab mouse, ...

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