Institute Interdisciplinary… Equipment

Equipment

We provide equipment, training and guidance for all behavior tests.

If you are interested in anything that is not listed, please contact us.

  • T-Maze
  • Morris Water Maze
  • Radial Maze
  • Novel Object Recognition
  • Active Place Avoidance according to Sacktor
  • Passive Avoidance 
  • Fear Conditioning 
  • Puzzle box
  • Intellicage
  • Open Field Activity
  • Grip Strength Test
  • Rotarod
  • Horizontal Ladder (grid walk)
  • Montoya's Staircase
  • Running wheels
  • CATWALK
  • Dynamic Weight Bearing
  • Treadmill
  • Cylinder test
  • Parallel Rod Floor test
  • Beam Balance rod
  • Cliff avoidance reaction
  • Hole board exploration test
  • Open Field Activity
  • Elevated Plus Maze
  • Dark-light exploration 
  • Forced Swim Test
  • Tail Suspension
  • Sucrose Preference Hyponeophagia
  • Cliff avoidance
  • Social Interaction (Ethovision)
  • Three Chamber Test
  • Ultrasonic Vocalization (AVISOFT)

Reflex-based analysis

  • Plantar (Hargraeves) test
  • Hot / cold plate
  • von Frey test for mechanical sensitivity
  • Tail Flick

Non reflex-based analysis

  • Dynamic weight bearing test
  • Thermal place preference test

Analysis of emotional / motivational behaviors and spontaneous pain

  • Conditioned place preference (CPP)
  • Place escape avoidance paradigm (PEAP)
  • Ultrasonic vocalization

Novel tests for pain sensitivity

  • hole board test
  • LABORAS
  • running wheels
  • open field
  • Catwalk
  • LABORAS
  • Running Wheels
  • Intellicage
  • SYGNIS Tracker
  • Ethovision
  • AnyMaze