Towards Optimal Mice Environment: Designing Real-Time Environment Monitoring Systems for Enhanced Well-being /
Omna Ashfaq
- 111p. Soft Copy, 30cm.
Mice actively interact with their surrounding environment influencing physical, social, emotional well-being and sizably govern behaviors including stress responses, social interactions and exploration, setting a crucial foundation for general quality of life. Suboptimal environment conditions lead the laboratory mice to have impaired social behavior, elevated anxiety level and physiological stress. Environmental parameters such as temperature, light, noise and air quality have great impact on mice growth, reproduction and behavioral development. Recognizing these interactions necessitates the behest of an environment monitoring system. So, this study set forth design, development and setup of real time environment monitoring system for mice. Integration of multiple sensors provides controlled and stable conditions for experimental setup, bestowing continuous, uninterrupted monitoring of crucial environmental parameters, incorporating the factors vital for sustaining healthy, stable and stress-free environment. The system provides us with real time visualization of data, automated alarm system and immediate action toward environmental fluctuation. The data kept being stored continuously providing reliable, long-term access to analysis & monitoring. Besides, Real time feedback, regulating the surrounding environment resulting in better Behavioral activities and good food/water intake pattern. To test this hypothesis evaluation of anxiety like behavior was conducted via five behavioral tests. Results give an idea of better activity and reduce stress like behavior in experiment group mice housed in real time environment monitoring cage as compared to control group mice housed in a normal cage. Notably, in the post-28-day behavioral tests, all results showed a p-value smaller than 0.05, confirming the statistical significance of these findings. So, the findings highlight the system competence bestowing mice wellbeing and behavioral development. Therefore, demonstrating technologies can be applied to achieve ethical and scientific diligence along with adaptability and scalability in future.