Commercial Cotton Nesting Material as a Predisposing Factor for Conjunctivitis in Athymic Nude Mice

Lab Animal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 40-42

  Bazille, Paula G ^a,b   Walden, Scott D ^a   Koniar, Brenda L ^a   Gunther, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COTTON; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; MICE; MICE, NUDE; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 0035344538     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Moore, G.J. Dermatitis in nude mice (nu/nu) associated with Staphylococcus pyogenes. Lab. Anim.; 17(1):42-44, 1983.
2. Needham, J.R. and Cooper, J.E. An eye infection in laboratory mice associated with Pasteurella pneumotropica. Lab. Anim.; 9(3):197-200, 1975.
3. McWilliams, T.S., et al. Corynebacterium species-associated keratoconjunctivitis in aged male C57BL/6J mice. Lab. Anim. Sci.; 43(5):509-512, 1993.
4. Sundberg, J.P., et al. Suppurative conjunctivitis and ulcerative blepharitis in 129/J mice. Lab. Anim. Sci.; 41(5):516-518, 1991.
5. Van de Weerd, H.A., et al. Preferences for nesting material as environmental enrichment for laboratory mice. Lab. Anim.; 31(2):133-143, 1997.
6. Sherwin, C.M. Observations on the prevalence of nest-building in non-breeding TO strain mice and their use of two nesting materials. Lab. Anim.; 31(2):125-132, 1997.
7. Van de Weerd, H.A., et al. Nesting material as environmental enrichment has no adverse effects on behavior and physiology of laboratory mice. Physiol. Behav.; 62(5):1019-1028, 1997.
8. Besch-Williford, C. and Wagner, J.E. Bacterial and mycotic diseases of the integumentary system. In. Foster, H.L., et al., eds. The Mouse in Biomedical Research, Vol. 2. Academic Press, NY, pp. 55-75, 1982.
9. McGarry, M.P., et al. Particulate matter induced periorbital abscess in gnotobiotic athymic nu/nu (nude) mice. Lab. Anim. Sci.; 26(6, Pt 1):956-958, 1976.