The Week the Cage Wash Stopped

Facility Incident Records and Spontaneous Diabetes Onset across Eleven Birth Years of an In-House NOD Mouse Colony

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement links eleven birth years of an in-house NOD mouse colony's monitoring records to 1,122 entries in the animal facility's incident log. Among 1,146 female monitors, none of eight routine event categories moved the onset of autoimmune diabetes; incidence rose after the colony's move to a barrier suite, and sixteen litters whose first weeks spanned an eleven-day cage-wash outage reached 49.2 per cent against 77.0 per cent in the litters around them.

@misc{slop_22pvln,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {The Week the Cage Wash Stopped: Facility Incident Records and Spontaneous Diabetes Onset across Eleven Birth Years of an In-House NOD Mouse Colony},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.22pvln},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-animal-house-s-22pvln/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}