Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience
Multi Conditioning System
Multi-Purpose Platform for Ten Behavioral Paradigms
The Multiconditoning System (MCS) empowers researchers by enabling comprehensive behavioral testing (learning, memory, emotion, anxiety) within a single, automated platform. MCS consolidates workflows, eliminating the need for multiple setups and saving valuable bench space. Generate reproducible results with confidence.MCS offers unmatched versatility for diverse research needs. Removable floors and interchangeable test arenas adapt to a wide range of behavioral assays. Additionally, the powerful software, with 3 comprehensive packages allows running and analysis of over 10 behavioral tests.
Experience the benefits of MCS research: reduced costs, minimized space requirements, enhanced data accuracy, and superior reproducibility.
ActiMot2
Fully Automated Infrared Activity Frame for Mice & Rats
The multi-purpose ActiMot2 system registers, spontaneous or induced, animal movement with a 3-dimensional grid of light-beam sensors. Horizontal and vertical movements are reliably detected with high spatial and temporal resolution.ActiMot2 is available for Open Field experiments to study spontaneous activity, exploration, and anxiety. Square-shaped light-beam frames in two sizes with up to two additional rearing levels are combined with Open Field arenas for rats and mice. The dedicated advanced software with over 100 integrated result parameters is customized with various built-in options, including defining regions of interest and detecting thresholds to fine-tune activity and speed parameters.
IntelliCage
New Standard for Rodents Behavioral & Cognitive Phenotyping
IntelliCage is a fully automated system allowing you to assess home cage behavior and cognitive performance of up to 16 mice or 8 rats respectively while preserving social interaction. This unique experimental setup fosters natural social behavior in a biologically relevant, enriched and highly standardized home cage context. Therefore, IntelliCage minimizes handling and human intervention, increasing task validity, data reproducibility and ensuring a high level of animal welfare.To provide a greater control over animal movement between the IntelliCage and external compartments, like running wheels or metabolic cages, we offer our sophisticated animal gate. Conditionally manage access based on individual animal identification and programmable protocols, streamline your research workflows while minimizing stress on your subjects.
MotoRater
Most Sensitive Rodent Kinematic Movement & Gait Analysis
MotoRater is the new standard in the field of rodent gait analysis. This innovative tracking system breaks through the limitations of traditional footprint analysis, offering a comprehensive and versatile platform for researchers investigating fine movement and posture details.MotoRater precisely tracks designated anatomical points across five distinct movement modalities – overground walking, skilled ladder walking, wading, swimming, and beam walking. This unparalleled capacity for multimodal analysis allows more detailed understanding of motor disfunction across diverse behavioral contexts.
Our sophisticated high-speed camera system provides simultaneous full ventral, left, and right-sided capture of the animal’s locomotion. This multi-angular approach facilitates the generation of rich 3D kinematic data, enabling researchers to capture subtle deviations in posture and movement patterns that might be missed by traditional single-view techniques.
TraffiCage
Automated Assessment of Individual Locomotor Activity in Group Housed Mice or Rats
TraffiCage addresses a critical limitation in behavioral phenotyping – the reliance on solitary housing, which disrupts natural social interactions. This innovative system overcomes this challenge by enabling concurrent social housing and automated locomotor activity tracking via radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.TraffiCage empowers researchers to:
Follow Social Activity Connections: Investigate how social interactions influence individual locomotor activity patterns, offering insights into the social regulation of physical health.
Assess Social Impact on Disease Models: Evaluate the influence of social context on disease progression in rodent models, potentially leading to more generalizable preclinical data.
Refine Behavioural Phenotyping with Social Context: Improve our understanding of behavior by studying animals in a socially relevant environment that better reflects their natural habitat.
Startle Response/PPI System
Fully Computerized Platform for Acoustic Startle Reflex and Pre-Pulse Inhibition in Rodents
This automated system offers a robust platform for investigating sensorimotor gating in various rodent models.Sound-Attenuated Environment: The system incorporates a sound-attenuated housing to minimize external acoustic interference, ensuring reliable and accurate measurement of startle responses. This controlled environment allows to isolate and precisely measure the animal’s reflex response to the auditory stimuli.
Integrated Floor Grid and High-Precision Load Cell: The housing features a cage-integrated floor grid upon which the animal stands. This grid connects to a high-precision load cell that precisely detects even subtle changes in the animal’s vertical movement triggered by the startle reflex.
Controlled Auditory Stimulation: A pair of high-quality loudspeakers positioned within the chamber deliver precisely calibrated acoustic stimuli to elicit the startle reflex.
PhenoWorld
Unique and Customized Fully Automated Phenotyping Solution
Streamline your behavioural research with the Animal Gate, a versatile system designed to manage movement between compartments and levels for both mice and rats. This innovative tool empowers you with:Automated Access Control: Programmable software controls access based on time and individual animal identification through integrated RFID technology.
Seamless Movement: Animals navigate freely while the system maintains control. The optional air-puff feature (available for the rat version) allows for additional training or behavioural conditioning.
Real-Time Weight Measurements: The built-in scale captures weight data as animals pass through the gate, providing valuable insights into health and behaviour.
Personalized Protocols: Define black and white lists based on body weight or other parameters, ensuring only authorized animals gain access.
Diverse Movement Options: Beyond the Animal Gate, various options like tubes, tunnels, and even stairways cater to different animal preferences and experimental setups.
Stellar Telemetry
Multichannel Implantable Telemetry for In-Vivo Monitoring of Physiological Parameters
All Digital Solution
Unlike traditional cage-based setups, Stellar Telemetry is an animal-centric system that prioritizes minimal hardware requirements.All-Digital Solution: Stellar requires only one antenna in the room, which is only 5m+/10ft away from animals or less.
The Universal Receiver: Enables simultaneous data collection from up to 8 real-time implants or up to 32 memory implants.
Flexible Antenna Placement: Conveniently positioned on walls, ceilings, or stands, allowing for optimal data transmission and reception.
Versatile Compatibility: Stellar Telemetry serves diverse research needs with a single, streamlined setup seamlessly adaptable across different species and labs.
Continuous & Memory-Type Implants
Group Housing Compatible: Break free from the constraints of individual housing, animals can be group-housed while individual data is collected with precision and accuracy.Effortless Scheduling: The measurement schedule can be programmed remotely and changed at any time after implantation.
Minimalistic Setup: No receivers around cages; simple USB connection(s) to your computer or laptop.
Expand Your Research: Simply purchase new implants and use the same system hardware and software with any Stellar implant model across all animal species.
Revolutionizing Animal Research
Seamless Integration: Conduct telemetry recording alongside other tests, such as exercise or cognition testing, with ease.Guaranteed Data Integrity: Scheduled recording with memory implants ensures lossless storage and transmission whenever the antenna is within range.
Efficient Battery Usage: Implants conserve battery power by activating specific signals and settings as requested through an intuitive user interface.
NeuroLogger
Wireless & Cost-Effective Solution for EEG Recordings in Freely Moving Animals
The NeuroLogger is a versatile tool designed for use in freely moving animals across various behavioral paradigms and in the study of animal models for epilepsy and sleep disorders. With its plug on/off functionality, it serves as a data logger capable of recording 4 channels of EEG/EMG activity. What sets it apart is its straightforward and cost-effective battery replacement process, ensuring uninterrupted recording cycles.Key Advantages:
Enhanced Subject Freedom: Untethered design minimizes behavioral disruption during recordings.
Social Recording Capabilities: Enables simultaneous recordings from multiple animals in shared environments.
Precise Event Marking: Synchronizes recordings with external triggers for accurate event analysis.
Integrated Movement Monitoring: Provides real-time feedback on animal activity levels.
Optional External Signal Alignment: Seamlessly integrates timing signals for enriched data context.
NeuroLux
Freely Moving Group-Housed Animal Stimulation & Monitoring
NeuroLux – the first commercially available platform allowing wireless optogenetic stimulation and physiological monitoring of central and peripheral nervous system as well as specific organs. This flexible and price-affordable solution offers, on a unique platform, a vast variety of methodologies ranging from optogenetic stimulation, drug delivery, real-time physiological monitoring and photometry, all in freely moving animals to maximize data reliability and reproductivity.The NeuroLux Starter Kit is an all-inclusive package of all hardware, controller, as well as software to upgrade this technology quickly and easily in your existing experimental platform or housing cage. It allows up to 8 additional cages to be run simultaneously to increase experimental throughput. Master module powers and communicates other modules.
PhenoMaster
Advanced Multipurpose Platform for Rodent Metabolic, Behavioral & Physiological Studies
PhenoMaster is a leading force at the forefront of rodent metabolic, behavioral, and physiological phenotyping, delivering unparalleled accuracy, unrivaled resolution, and the most precise and consistent data. Trusted Data. Reliable Results. PhenoMaster’s robust design ensures consistent and high-throughput data you can confidently rely on. Trusted by leading researchers worldwide, this system fuels significant advancements in the field.PhenoMaster is an original and continuously evolving platform, built with the future in mind. Our pioneering spirit ensures access to the most advanced technology for your metabolic phenotyping studies.
Treadmill
Exercise, Motor Function & Coordination (+ VO2 max)
The Treadmill is an advanced computerized equipment tailored for forced exercise experiments and fatigue assessments in rodents. It supports individual or group animal studies, accommodating up to six mice or four rats per treadmill. The system features adjustable inclination for workload modification.A servo motor drives the treadmill belt, allowing you to program custom speed profiles with varying acceleration and deceleration phases. Infrared sensors detect when animals leave the belt, while optional motivational stimuli like foot shock or air puff encourage them to stay on track. Our Treadmill offers precise control over exercise parameters, facilitating studies on chronic adaptation to exercise and disease progression reversal in rodents with unparalleled efficiency and flexibility.
Running Wheels
Voluntary & Active Wheels for Rodents
Wheel running is a widely utilized method for assessing voluntary physical activity in rodents, particularly in the study of circadian rhythms. Additionally, running wheels can function as environmental enrichment, enhancing animal welfare during prolonged experiments.TSE Running Wheels for rats and mice are ingeniously suspended from the home cage lid, optimizing living space for the animal. This setup seamlessly integrates with ActiMot3 frames, enabling comprehensive evaluation of total activity levels. The optional Motor Skill drum boasts removable rods, allowing for the creation of irregular rod patterns. This sophisticated wheel is a potent tool for early detection of motor deficits, surpassing traditional tests like the RotaRod in efficacy.
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