Mice in medical research

This video shows the standard caging used for mice in animal houses. It is important to note that mice are much smaller than the other mammals used in research, so although their cages appear small, there is plenty of room for their needs. They are social animals, benefiting from being housed together in small groups and their natural behaviour involves grouping together in small spaces. Other natural behaviours including nesting and tunneling, and is why they are provided with fairly deep bedding. Mice and other small rodents also like to hide inside dark spaces, which is the reason for the plastic casing in the cages. It is termed the red mouse house and is beneficial as the mouse cannot see out of the box and so feels secure, but the researcher can see in. This video has no sound.

Additional information can be found here:
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/videos_library/detail...

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Science & Technology

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• animal experiment
• using animal
• mice
• mice in cage
• animal housing
• animal testing
• animal research

[animeworldnr1]

where can you buy those boxes?

[animalevidence]

Usually through laboratory suppliers but you could try a pet shop.

[silkjc]

@TwoGirls1Panda Labs breed their own animals. They make their own disease model animal lines, or acquire them from other labs; they don't buy them from non-lab breeders.

[TwoGirls1Panda]

How does a long time mouse/rat/rabbit breeder get started on breeding lab animals. Basicly how would I sell these animals to the labs and/or approach the labs about my services? I have all the capabilities for sterile enviroments, controlled breeding/animal husbandry and the like.

[lukebeevers93]

@Bubbiea You said they were rats. I was correcting you.

[Bubbiea]

@lukebeevers93 your point?

[lukebeevers93]

@Bubbiea They're mice actually "dude".

[Bubbiea]

@lukebeevers93 theyre just rats dude chill out

[lukebeevers93]

@pineconesaresmallnow "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work on humans" - Dr. Richard Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute

[pineconesaresmallnow]

@lukebeevers93 "The mouse is the closest mammalian model organism to humans. The gene sequences that code for numerous proteins responsible for carrying out vital biological processes in both the human and the mouse share a high degree of similarity. Therefore, the mouse has already proven EXTREMELY USEFUL in development, genetic, and immunology studies." - From NCBI model organisms guide.

[lukebeevers93]

@pineconesaresmallnow It is true they are used for things other than human vanity like drugs testing but let's clear the myths up here. Drugs testing is used primarily for public reassurance. The massive interspecific variations between mice and people make it impossible to extrapolate accurate results from such studies. Many undercover videos show horrific abuse of animals in animal testing facilities, most notably Huntingdon Life Sciences and Nafovanny. Don't believe what the animal abusers sa

[pineconesaresmallnow]

@lukebeevers93 I sort of agree but mice are not only used to test products for human vanity.