Abstract:Medical researchers often use mice and rats for numerous procedures. In typical rat housing rooms, there can be as many as 200 rats for an investment of $800,000 and in typical mouse rooms, as many as 2570 mice for an investment of $10 million. Do the sound and ultrasound exposures of these animals interfere with the medical research objectives of the scientists? Research has shown that high-noise levels have an effect on the physical and psychological responses of rodents. In order to eliminate this factor fr… Show more
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