Alone – together? – single housing of male mice

AIMS

  • To 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
  • To quantify the stress level and behavior of single housed (under social isolation and/or with social contact) male mice
  • To get adequate information if the current severity regulation is appropriate or needs to be changed
  • To see if proven to be superior to isolated single housing: drive implementation of cage connectors
Published : 07.09.2025

PROJECT DETAILS 

  

Grant scheme: Refinement Grant 

Grant number: RG-2023-009 

Funding amount: CHF 20’800 

 

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Start date: 01.06.24 

End date: 31.05.26 

Zurich integrative Rodent Physiology
University of Zurich