Recommendations for measuring and standardizing light for laboratory mammals to improve welfare and reproducibility in animal research

RJ Lucas, AE Allen, GC Brainard, TM Brown… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Light enables vision and exerts widespread effects on physiology and behavior, including
regulating circadian rhythms, sleep, hormone synthesis, affective state, and cognitive …

Data repurposing from digital home cage monitoring enlightens new perspectives on mouse motor behaviour and reduction principle

S Fuochi, M Rigamonti, M Raspa, F Scavizzi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In this longitudinal study we compare between and within-strain variation in the home-cage
spatial preference of three widely used and commercially available mice strains …

Penguins snatch seconds-long microsleeps

CD Harding, VV Vyazovskiy - Science, 2023 - science.org
Considerable research efforts have been committed to understanding the fundamental
biology of sleep. Yet, this knowledge is mostly derived from laboratory studies undertaken in …

Light sampling behaviour regulates circadian entrainment in mice

LCE Steel, SKE Tam, LA Brown, RG Foster, SN Peirson - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
Background The natural light environment is far more complex than that experienced by
animals under laboratory conditions. As a burrowing species, wild mice are able to self …

In the eye of the beholder: measuring and standardising light for laboratory mammals

RJ Lucas, A Allan, george brainard, timothy brown… - 2023 - preprints.org
Light enables vision and exerts widespread effects on physiology and behaviour, including
regulating circadian rhythms, sleep, hormone synthesis, affective state, and cognitive …