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| Because testing is performed within the animal's cage, AfaSci's SmartCages™ eliminate the many problems associated with external testing systems, thereby increasing throughput and lowering costs: |
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No need to remove animals from their holding room, causing animal stress due to change in an environment |
No need to conduct tests in dedicated measuring device, causing scheduling bottlenecks and consuming space |
The animals perform tests in their sleep phase, leading to optimal accuracy
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No throughput limitations due to lack of automation |
Sleep/Activity-HomeCage™: For rodent sleep and activity monitoring.
- Indirect monitoring of sleep from seconds to weeks
- Active and quiet wakefulness
- Absolute and percent time spent in each arousal state
- Light/dark preference: 1st entry latency, Time in light/dark compartment, and Transition numbers
- Stereotypic behaviors: Rearing
catalog number: SAH001
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Touchscreen-Homecage™, for rodent cognitive testing and basic neurobehavioral assessments using touchscreen techniques.
- Visual-discrimination based learning and memory: Initiation rate, Response rate and latency, and correct choice rate
- Activity, locomotion and movement pattern: x, y, z beam breaking counts, traveling distance and speed, position, movement path and rotation numbers
catalog number: TSH001
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Under Development
| A series of additional modular devices are currently under development, usable individually or integrated within the AfaSci Instrumented SmartHomecage™ system for comprehensive behavioral phenotyping, pharmacological and toxicological studies in vivo.
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DiscTreadmill-Homecage™, for automated rodent sleep deprivation studies using a moving treadmill activated by dual or single monitoring system.
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