Strain Rescue
If your mouse colony has stopped breeding by natural mating or is threatened by age or poor health, we may be able to help. Mouse In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) can be used to rapidly expand mouse lines from a few males that carry the desired genotype or to maintain strains with poor breeding efficiency.
Pricing
Custom-made strain rescue: available upon request
Useful information
We are capable of employing the following advanced techniques to rescue your endangered mouse line.
- Sperm harvest and sperm cryopreservation
- Superovulation and oocyte collection
- In vitro fertilisation
- Embryo culture, embryo cryopreservation, and embryo transfer
- Ovarian transplantation
- Hysterectomy rederivation