Fig 1. Housing Conditions.

Illustration of the tail ring (A), and steel wires with tape (B) as applied to the tail for the suspension studies. Also shown are the three different housing conditions; normal housing (C), non suspended housing (D), and suspended housing (E) using terminated immobile mice to show angles of suspension as active mice in non suspended housing (F) and suspended (G) are difficult to photograph. The food blocks were clamped (black boxes) to allow access but to prevent movement of food block for resting of hindlimbs.