Ongoing | June 2024 - June 2026

Alone - together? - single housing of male mice

RG-2023-009

Keywords: single housing of male mice, social isolation, social contact, hierarchy stress, rank fights, housing conditions
Budget: CHF 20'800.-

Aim

  • provide a strategy (cage connectors) to reduce the SD for single housed males from SD 3 to 1 by allowing visual, olfactory and acoustic contact between two IVCs

  • quantify the stress level and behavior of single housed (under social isolation and/or with social contact) male mice

  • get adequate information if the current severity regulation is appropriate or needs to be changed

  • if proven to be superior to isolated single housing: drive implementation of cage connectors

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Dr Petra Seebeck

Zurich integrative Rodent Physiology
University of Zurich