Potential for using a hermetically-sealed, positive-pressured isocage system for studies involving germ-free mice outside a flexible-film isolator

Gut Microbes

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 255-265

  Paik, Jisun ^a   Pershutkina, Olesya ^a   Meeker, Stacey ^a   Yi, Jaehun J ^a   Dowling, Susan ^a   Hsu, Charlie ^a   Hajjar, Adeline M ^a   Maggio Price, Lillian ^a   Beck, David A C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal transfer; Germ free; Isolator; Isopositive cage; Method; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSAFETY; CAGE; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE FILM ISOLATOR; GERMFREE MOUSE; ISOCAGE SYSTEM; MALE; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; MOUSE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTESTINE FLORA;

AIR;

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GERM-FREE LIFE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICE;

EID: 84944446151     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2015.1064576     Document Type: Article

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