Julie Watson

TL;DR: Noise in animal housing facilities is an environmental variable that can affect hearing, behavior and physiology in mice and attempts to reduce noise should concentrate on controlling sounds produced by in-room activities and experimenter traffic to reduce the variability of research outcomes and improve animal welfare.

TL;DR: The results show that B220+DN T cells are proliferating and dying at exceptionally high rates than SP T cells in the steady state, and the Fas pathway plays a critical role in regulating the tissue distribution of DN T cells through targeting and elimination of DNT cells from the periphery in the Steady state.

TL;DR: Although the possibility remains that MPV infection resulted from fomites or undetected infections in incoming mice, the timing and extent of this outbreak together with the complete absence of new cases after sterilized feed was reinstituted strongly implicate unsterilized feed as the source of this MPV outbreak.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cross-fostering is a viable low-cost method for rederivation of mouse colonies contaminated with pathogens such as mouse hepatitis virus, Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus, mouse rotavirus, and H. hepaticus.

TL;DR: This report is the first to demonstrate the efficacy and physical effects of providing medicated diet for the eradication of Helicobacter spp.