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The Smart Vivarium

The Smart Vivarium. Physiologic and Environmental Monitoring of Rodents. The Smart Vivarium. Management Basic Well Being/Health Reproduction Biosecurity. Management. Census Measurement Supply Waste Identification Environment. Census Measurements. Per Animal Per Cage Per Room.

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The Smart Vivarium

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  1. The Smart Vivarium Physiologic and Environmental Monitoring of Rodents

  2. The Smart Vivarium • Management • Basic Well Being/Health • Reproduction • Biosecurity

  3. Management • Census Measurement • Supply • Waste • Identification • Environment

  4. Census Measurements • Per Animal • Per Cage • Per Room

  5. Supply • Food • Water • Bedding • Enrichment • Caging materials

  6. Waste • Food • Water • Bedding • Housing materials • Metabolic products • Ammonia • Heat - humidity • Feces

  7. The Environment • Room • Air • Light • Humidity • Light intensity • Location in room • Equipment • Percent of time cage open

  8. Identification

  9. Basic Well Being • Body composition • Activity • Drinking  • Eating  • Urination • Defecation • Physiologic Parameters

  10. Body composition • Body mass • Lean body mass • Body fat • Total body water • Percent body water • Change in total body water per unit time

  11. Activity - normal • Total number of steps • Total distance traveled • Amount of time in motion • Amount of time climbing • Average velocity • Grooming • Sleeping/Resting • Exploratory novel stimuli

  12. Activity - abnormal • Circling • Rolling • Stumbling • Scratching • Death

  13. Drinking  • Time spent at water lick • Volume of water intake • Frequency of water intake

  14. Eating • Time spent eating • Volume of food intake • Frequency of food intake • Food preference

  15. Urination • Volume of urine production • Urine specific gravity • Frequency of micturation

  16. Defecation • Volume of feces production • Frequency of elimination • Fecal water content

  17. Physiologic Parameters • HR • RR • Temp • Blood gases • BP - systolic, diastolic, mean

  18. Reproduction • Breeding • Nesting • Parturition • Lactation/nursing

  19. Breeding • Number of matings • Mating time per mating • Total mating time • Completed breeding

  20. Nesting • time producing a nest

  21. Parturition • Time in delivery • Total animals per litter • Total animals lost per litter

  22. Lactation/nursing • total nursing time • nursing frequency

  23. Biosecurity • Sentinel animals • Serology • DNA analysis

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