All NCBC Housing is located in Barrier (unless otherwise noted)

Acclimate Housing

The NCBC offers a standard housing room within the Core area of the barrier facility. Housing animals in this room minimizes the amount of transport required to move mice to and from the experimental rooms, reducing additional stress from transport. This housing room has a standard (per the greater OAR facility) housing rack with ventilation and a watering system. The housing room operates on a light cycle with lights ON at 900 and lights OFF at 2100. Investigators are responsible for all animal husbandry if housing mice in this room. 

Inverted Light-Cycle Housing

The NCBC offers a housing room within the Core area of the barrier facility with an inverted light cycle. Housing animals in this room minimizes the amount of transport required to move mice to and from the experimental rooms, reducing additional stress from transport, and allows experimenters to run tests during the mouse's dark phase. This housing room has a standard (per the greater OAR facility) housing rack with ventilation and a watering system. The housing room operates on a light cycle with lights OFF at 900 and lights ON at 2100. Investigators are responsible for all animal husbandry if housing mice in this room.

Non-Standard (Short-Term) Housing

The NCBC offers a non-standard housing room within the Core area of the barrier facility. Housing animals in this room minimizes the amount of transport required to move mice to and from the experimental rooms, reducing additional stress from transport, and allows for special husbandry/housing. This room is ideal for experiments that require water bottle use (rather than the typical, inbuilt rack watering system), sucrose preferences testing, nonstandard cages, etc. The light cycle can also be adjusted to meet the investigator's needs. Investigators housing animals in this room are responsible for all husbandry and room upkeep, as well as all required logs and health checks corresponding to non-standard housing/husbandry. 

For Activity Monitoring or EEG/EMG, please see the "Long-Term Recording" section.