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. 2020 Jul 14;10:11584. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68477-2

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PiDose reliably weighs and administers solutions to group-housed mice. (a) Histogram of rounded bodyweight measurements collected for a representative animal over the course of one day. The average bodyweight for the mouse is determined by taking the mode of these values. (b) Average daily bodyweights calculated by PiDose are highly correlated with manually measured bodyweights (n = 112). (c) The average absolute discrepancy between the PiDose bodyweight and the manual bodyweight (i.e. the weighing error) (n = 112) is smaller than the average day-to-day change in bodyweight (n = 104) for the same animals. (d) Average error for each of the four syringe pumps constructed to administer drug-solutions to mice in PiDose expressed as a percentage of the desired drop volume (10 μL). Error bars represent SEM.