We offer a wide variety of behavioral assays outlined below:
- Locomotor activity: Open Field and Chronic home-cage monitoring.
- Anxiety-like behavior: Elevated-Zero Maze, Open field, Novelty-Induced Hypophagia, Novelty-Suppressed Feeding, and Light/Dark Box.
- Learning & Memory: Contextual and Cued Fear conditioning, Extinction Learning, Morris Water Maze, Novel Object Location, Novel Object Recognition, Y-Maze, Barnes Maze, and Radial Maze.
- Depressive-like behavior: Forced Swim, Learned Helplessness, Social Defeat, Restrain Stress, Tail Suspension, Sucrose Preference.
- Homecage Behaviors: Grooming, Feeding, Drinking, Locomotion, Climbing, and Rearing.
- Social Behavior: Social Novelty, Social Interaction, Resident Intruder, Social Place Preference.
- Olfactory Function: Olfactory Cross-habituation and Olfactory Generalization.
- Sensory Function: Hotplate, Shock Threshold, Automated Von Fray Filaments for mechanical testing, thermal plantar testing or Hargreaves test.
- Motor Function: Accelerating Rotarod, wire-hang test, Grip Strength, and Gait Analysis.
The RBPC also offers the capability to adapt our equipment to the research needs of our users.