Behaviour Tests
The Animal Behaviour and Physiology Core currently offers the following behaviour tests for mice:
- Acoustic Startle Response
- Adhesive Removal Test
- Adult Social Interaction
- Barnes Maze
- Beam Break
- Buried Food Test
- Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen System
- Conditioned Avoidance (Active or Passive)
- Conditioned Place Preference
- Cylinder Rearing Test
- Dark Light Test
- Digigait
- Elevated Plus Maze
- Fear Conditioning
- Forced Swim Test
- Grip strength
- Hanging Wire Test
- Horizontal Ladder
- Juvenile Social Interaction
- Learned Helplessness Test
- Marble Burying Test
- Morris Water Maze
- Nest building
- Novelty Suppressed Feeding
- Object Recognition
- Olfaction testing
- Open Field
- Pasta Matrix Reaching Test
- Phenotyper
- Pole Test
- Prepulse Inhibition Test
- Radial Maze
- Resident Intruder Test
- Rotarod
- Rotational Behaviour
- Running Wheels
- Single Pellet Reaching Test
- Social Defeat
- Stair Case
- Sucrose Preference
- Tail Suspension
- Tail Flick Test
- T Maze
- Three-Chamber Sociability Test
- Ultrasonic Vocalization
- Y-Maze (Spontaneous and Forced)
The Animal Behaviour and Physiology Core currently offers the following behaviour tests for rats:
- Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen System
- Digigait
- Fear Conditioning
- Grip Strength
- Morris Water Maze
- Object Recognition
- Open Field
- Prepulse Inhibition
- Ultrasonic Vocalization
The Animal Behaviour and Physiology Core currently offers the following physiology and exercise tests:
- Comprehensive Live Animal Monitoring (CLAMS) - mice only
- EchoMRI - mice and rats
- Metabolic treadmill - mice and rats
- Wireless implantable telemetry - mice and rats
- Treadmill exercise system - mice and rats
- Swim tank exercise system - mice and rats
Additional tests may be available upon request.