Housing settings affect C57BL/6 mice's stress, depressive-like behavior, and sensory-motor skills
Hatice Keser, İsmail Abidin, Elif Şahin, Hilal Öztürk, Harun Başoğlu, Ahmet Alver, Selcen Aydın-Abidin · FENS Forum 2024
The effect of living conditions on the physiology, behaviour and stress of laboratory animals is still being discussed. There are conflicting findings regarding individually ventilated cages(IVC). This study aims to explore the effects of three distinct cage setups and to examine the differences in the impacts of IVC cages, classical cages and classical cages with varying mouse populations. Thirty male C57BL/6J strain mice were split into three groups:IVC, classical small(CC500) and big(CC800) with a floor size of 500 and 800 cm2,respectively. From birth until six months of age, the mice were
ePoster · Neuroscience