Keywords: single housing of male mice, social isolation, social contact, hierarchy stress, rank fights, housing conditions
Budget: CHF 20'800.-
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
Dr Petra Seebeck
Zurich integrative Rodent Physiology
University of Zurich