Optimal housing temperatures for mice to mimic the thermal environment of humans: An experimental study

Objectives: The laboratory mouse is presently the most common model for examining mechanisms of human physiology and disease. Housing temperatures can have a large impact on the outcome of such experiments and on their translatability to the human situation. Humans usually create for themselves a th...

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Main Authors: Alexander W. Fischer, Barbara Cannon, Jan Nedergaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Molecular Metabolism
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287781730697X