Equipment

Conveniently housed in the OLAR vivarium, RBC equipment are freely available in a suite of 6 dedicated rodent behavior testing rooms that have been optimized for task-specific needs.

Apparatus:

Anxiety and Depression

Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate
Elevated Plus Maze
Hole Board
Light-dark Transition
Marble Burying
Novelty-induced Hypophagia
Open Field
Porsolt Forced Swim Test
Sucrose Preference
Tail Suspension

Drug Abuse Potential

Conditioned Place Preference
Drinking in the Dark
Two-bottle Choice

Learning and Memory

Active and Passive Avoidance
Morris Water Maze
Novel Object Recognition
Radial Arm Maze
Social Investigation/Discrimination
T-maze

Locomotion

Open Field
Visible Platform

Operant Conditioning

Lever Press Chambers - water or food reward

Sensorimotor/Nociception

Beam Balance Test
Cylinder Test
Grip Strength
Hot Plate
Rotarod
Swim Test
Tail Flick

Computer Software

Stoelting AnyMaze 4.5
Noldus Ethovision 8.5
San Diego Instruments PAS (Open Field)
UgoBasile Data Collection Application (Grip Strength)