ENV-044 RF Low-Profile Mouse Running Wheel

The current trend of housing mouse colonies in individually ventilated cages (IVCs) has allowed dramatic increases in housing density, improved environmental control, and better biosecurity. However, the low profile configuration of many mouse IVCs has made it more difficult to add enrichment devices, such as a running wheel, to the mouse home cage. Our new wireless low-profile mouse running wheel represents a state-of-the-art device that enables quantitative measurements of mouse running levels in most standard IVCs. We use the popular “Fast Trac?” running wheel surface from BioServ (www.bio-serv.com) along with our proprietary wireless transmitter to get running data from the home cage to computer without any wires or cables.