Summary
This poster describes applications for continuous mouse monitoring in spaceflight and ground-based analogue research. Passive home-cage measurements of temperature, movement, and resource location could improve remote welfare checks and add data to studies of flight hardware, diet, social behavior, radiation, infection, and countermeasures without disturbing sleep or activity. The UID Mouse Matrix reads implanted UCT-2112 temperature microchips through zoned plates below each cage.
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