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From: Monitoring of tumor growth and vascularization with repetitive ultrasonography in the chicken chorioallantoic-membrane-assay

 

CAM assay

Nude mouse1 (male, six weeks old)

Median costs/animal [€]

2.062

53.843

Successful tumor growth [%]

50

784

Running costs / week [€]

0.02

2.945

Calculated average cost/successful tumor (in ovo/ in vivo) [€]

4.13

69.47

  1. 1Resembled by the Crt:NU(NCr)-Foxn1nu/nu strain.
  2. 2Median costs/ egg (including transport costs) of the main distributer of Hens-Eggs in the specific region (Bio-Aufzucht LSL Rhein-Main GmbH, Dieburg, Germany).
  3. 3Median Costs for a male, six weeks old Crt:NU(NCr)-Foxn1nu/nu mouse according to the 3 available distributers for nude mice in the specific region (Janvier Labs, Paris, France; Charles River Wiga GmbH, Sulzfeld, Germany; Envigo RMS GmbH, Roßdorf, Germany).
  4. 4Gong et al.39, Huang et al. 40, Robertson et al.41, Xu et al.42 and Zhang et al.43.
  5. 5Resembled by the average running costs for SCID mice in our specific institution (Translational Animal Research Center, Gutenberg University Mainz).
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