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Please update Mouse Inventory with your new orders, termination, relocation, and experimental treatments.
Dear animal facility users,
Here are the things you have to note when you start working with mice in Jin Lab:
1: When you plan to order some mice for your experiment, please figure out the strain, gender, age and number of your mice first. You can either have a discussion with your advisor, find some references or go to the website of some big mice farms. The links of some popular mice farms are listed below
Charles River http://www.criver.com/en-US/Pages/home.aspx
Harlan http://www.harlan.com/
Taconic http://www.taconic.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=16
Jackson Lab http://www.jax.org/
Sometimes there are some mice that people don't want in lab. They are usually labeled as “open” in owner section. You can consider claiming them for your experiment first if you don't care about the history of mice.
2: After you figure out the abovementioned information of your order, please email them to Zoe (xc48@cornell.edu). She will put down mice orders together at the beginning of the week (usually Mon).
3: If the farm you get mice from have enough stock, your mice will arrive at the mice facility on the Tue of next week. After 3-day acclimation, you can start to play with your mice in our barrier side room (Fri of that week). However, sometimes it may take more than 2 weeks for your mice to come. In that case, Zoe will email you when they come or you can check the arrival of your mice every week.
4: Once you receive your mice, please don't rush to your experiment right away. Here is a checklist for you and please make sure you have done them before the exciting mice experiments:
- Write down all the information on the cage card to your designated mice notebook and update them here too.
- Decide the number of your mice and ear punch them for identification. Sylvia on barrier side can help you with the ear punch so just tell her about your design of ear punch pattern. The ear punch patterns can be any combination of nm(no mark), 4, 6, 40 and 60 (refer to your mice training handbook if you want to know about this number system). You also need to designate a number to each mouse beside ear punch so that you can differentiate mice from different cages. Our number system is a single letter followed by a number, for example, Xuebo's FVB/N mice are numbered B1-B6. B is the code for mice strain, and 1-6 represent the first 6 FVB/N mice we have. The codes for different strains we have until now are:
Hairless SCID: No
Nu/Nu: A
FVB/N: B
BALB/c: C
PLEASE UPDATE THIS ONCE YOU ORDER A NEW STRAIN!
And make sure you are naming your mice following the total amount of mice we had before. The current number of these mice are:
Hairless SCID: 44
Nu/Nu: 41
FVB/N: 6
BALB/c: 35
PLEASE UPDATE THIS ONCE YOU FINISH NAMING YOUR NEW MICE!
5: After you do some procedures on your mice, write that down in your notebook and come here to update this page too.
6: If the mice have some health problems, please update them on the note section.
7: After you euthanize your mice, you can come here and delete that cage. This is a inventory list ONLY for alive mice. But do keep the euthanizing information on your lab notebook!
8: AGAIN, be nice to your mice and respect the work of our dear vets. Do consult the vets first when you are not so sure about what you will be doing on mice!