The effects of group and single housing and automated animal monitoring on urinary corticosterone levels in male C57Bl/6 mice

Mice are used extensively in physiological research. Automated home‐cage systems have been developed to study single‐housed animals. Increased stress by different housing conditions might affect greatly the results when investigating metabolic responses. Urinary corticosteroid concentration is considered as a stress...

Year Published: 2016Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Kamakura, R., Kovalainen, M., Leppaluoto. J. et al. 2016. The effects of group and single housing and automated animal monitoring on urinary corticosterone levels in male C57Bl/6 mice. Physiological Reports 4(3), e12703.

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Versatile 3-D printed headstage implant for group housing of rodents

An unfavourable yet necessary side-effect of stereotaxic surgery involves the social isolation of post-surgery rats, in order to protect their wound site or skull-mounted implant from damage. Social isolation can cause a myriad of behavioural and physiological changes that are...

Year Published: 2016Topics: External Bodily Equipment, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Pinnell, R. C., Almajidy, R. K., Hofmann, U. G. 2016. Versatile 3-D printed headstage implant for group housing of rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 257, 134-138.

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