Reliability of the Mouse Grimace Scale in C57BL/6JRj Mice

To maintain and foster the welfare of laboratory mice, tools that reliably measure the current state of the animals are applied in clinical assessment. One of these is the Mouse Grimace Scale (MGS), a coding system for facial expression analysis. Since there are concerns about the objectivity of the...

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Main Authors: Katharina Hohlbaum, Giuliano Mario Corte, Melanie Humpenöder, Roswitha Merle, Christa Thöne-Reineke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Animals
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/9/1648