An Automated, Home-Cage, Video Monitoring-based Mouse Frailty Index Detects Age-associated Morbidity in C57BL/6 and Diversity Outbred Mice
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A(2023)
摘要
Frailty indexes (FIs) provide quantitative measurements of nonspecific health decline and are particularly useful as longitudinal monitors of morbidity in aging studies. For mouse studies, frailty assessments can be taken noninvasively, but they require handling and direct observation that is labor-intensive to the scientist and stress inducing to the animal. Here, we implement, evaluate, and provide a refined digital FI composed entirely of computational analyses of home-cage video and compare it to manually obtained frailty scores in both C57BL/6 and genetically heterogeneous Diversity Outbred mice. We show that the frailty scores assigned by our digital index correlate with both manually obtained frailty scores and chronological age. Thus, we provide an automated tool for frailty assessment that can be collected reproducibly, at scale, without substantial labor cost.
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Age-related pathology,Bioinformatics,Digital biomarkers,Frailty,Home cage,3Rs (reduce replace refine)
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