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Impact of bedding volume on physiological and behavioural parameters in laboratory mice.
Laboratory Animals 2017 December
The standard housing temperature in animal facilities is substantially below the lower critical temperature of mice. This does not only endanger animal welfare, it can also jeopardize scientific research as cold stress has a major impact on mouse physiology. There is some evidence that deep bedding, comparable to nesting material, can help mice to reduce heat loss. Whenever changes are applied to the cage environment, the potential impact on experimental results, including variation, needs to be assessed. An increased variation can result in a conflict between reduction and refinement, when more animals are needed for significance due to the housing design. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of different bedding volumes (0.5 L, 1.5 L and 6 L per type III cage) on mean values and coefficient of variation (CV) of physiological (pentobarbital sleeping time, blood and anatomical parameters) and behavioural parameters (open-field and novel object recognition tests) of group-housed female and male BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. A larger bedding volume did not interfere with the CVs, but influenced mean values of organ weights and tail lengths. Mice housed on deeper bedding showed a significant reduction in adrenal, liver, kidney and heart weights as well as an increase in tail lengths; these anatomical changes are akin to warm adaptation, and were previously observed for mice housed under warmer environments. A larger bedding volume appears to be a sensible way to reduce cold stress for laboratory mice without increasing variation in experimental results.
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