I hope everyone is doing great. Kindly spare some time and help me in resolving my issue. How can we select animal for our in vivo study? what are the basis of selection? For instance, I am working on Halophytes and willing to check its different activities. I need to understand the reason of selection specific strain for one's studies. I am waiting for your swift and kind response.
Thank you.
1. always go with an establish model if there is one. So in your case, if anyone has done anything with halophytes in mice, that's what you go with.
2. what is your experimental goal, what you are trying to test. For mice, you have to decide whether to use in-bred or out-bred mice. Most start with in-bred, because they are clonal, there are a lot of advantages. But each clone has their own specific immune responses to different pathogens/agents/etc. So... you have to know something about what you are trying to test, and what exactly you want to test.
That's the simple explanation.
Samreen good to see u here. This link may help u.
https://www.nap.edu/read/2119/chapter/4
Samreen Bashir