Nesting behavior is associated with body weight and grip strength loss in mice suffering from experimental arthritis

Abstract Objective animal health evaluation is essential to determine welfare and discomfort in preclinical in vivo research. Body condition scores, body weight, and grimace scales are commonly used to evaluate well-being in murine rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis experiments. However, n...

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Main Authors: Tamara Dietrich, Annette Aigner, Alexander Hildebrandt, Jérôme Weber, Mara Meyer Günderoth, Katharina Hohlbaum, Johannes Keller, Serafeim Tsitsilonis, Tazio Maleitzke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49720-y