NIA Mutant Mouse Aging Colony Handbook

The health summaries for the NIA mutant mouse aging colonies are available for download from this site as PDF documents.

Each of the NIA colonies is held in two barriers and the health summary includes the report for each individual barrier. The title of the health report download document includes the name of the colony, the colony number, and the date of the health report (not the date the animals were shipped for testing) in a six digit month-day-year format. For example, the document titled ‘Mutant Mouse 40009 092807’ is the health summary for the mutant mouse aging colony that is dated September 28, 2007.

Current health summaries are available from the Taconic website from the links below. The Mutant Mouse colony is housed in two independent health reporting groups:

• IBU 17/18/47
   
• IBU 12/15/30/31

The archived health summaries for the NIA mutant mouse aging colonies are available for download from this site as PDF documents. Each of the NIA colonies is held in two barriers and the health summary includes the report for each individual barrier. The title of the health report download document includes the name of the colony, the colony number, and the date of the health report (not the date the animals were shipped for testing) in a six digit month-day-year format. For example, the document titled ‘Mutant Mouse 40009 092807’ is the health summary for the mutant mouse aging colony that is dated September 28, 2007.