Good day scholars.
Please I need a step by step guide on how to collect vaginal smear and examine it for the presence of sperm. This is just to identify Pregnancy Day 1 when I am to start dosing the female animals.
Thanks.
A simple (but detailed step-by-step) protocol was written in a special volume: The Guide to Investigation of Mouse Pregnancy, 2014.
Feel free to look at the other chapters in this book, they are very interesting.
Hoping that this this protocol extension will be useful for your vaginal plug/smear analyses.
Ludovic Dumont, Ph.D.
Thanks very much @Ludovic
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192623315570339#:~:text=The%20tip%20of%20the%20dropper,be%20necessary%20(OECD%20n.d.).
Kindly go through this article. Hope it helps!
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