Article
Simplified Method to Measure Mouse Fertility.
Endocrinology - 1 Aug 2020
Handelsman David J, Walters Kirsty A, Ly Lam P
Abstract excerpt
Estimating breeding performance from mouse mating trials has focused on lifetime mating trials, which are too slow and costly for characterizing the many novel genetic mouse lines produced in fertility research, an underpinning of reproductive pathophysiology research. This study introduces the fertility index, defined as the slope of the regression of cumulative number of pups produced by a female over elapsed...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Breeding
- Female
- Fertility
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Litter Size
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Pregnancy
- Receptors, Androgen
- Reproduction
- Time Factors
