# Ugo Basile > Ugo Basile develops and manufactures scientific instruments for behavioral neuroscience, pain and inflammation research, gait analysis, motor coordination testing, animal behavior studies, physiology, metabolism, anesthesia, and laboratory animal research. Founded in Italy in 1963, Ugo Basile develops and manufactures research equipment used by universities, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and research institutes worldwide. The company provides validated instruments, scientific expertise, technical support, and application guidance for a wide range of experimental protocols. Ugo Basile equipment is commonly used in behavioral neuroscience, pain and inflammation research, motor function and motor coordination studies, learning, memory, conditioning and reward experiments, respiratory physiology and anesthesia, cardiovascular research, metabolic and feeding studies, and animal welfare and laboratory automation. The company serves researchers and laboratories worldwide with instrumentation designed for reproducible, validated, and high-quality preclinical research. ## Main Website Sections - [Home](https://ugobasile.com/): Company homepage and overview of product lines. - [All Products](https://ugobasile.com/products): Full catalog of scientific instruments. - [About Us](https://ugobasile.com/about-us): Company history and background since 1963. - [Blog](https://ugobasile.com/blog): Scientific articles and application notes. - [Contacts](https://ugobasile.com/contacts): Contact information. ## Product Categories - [Pain and Inflammation](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/pain-and-inflammation): Instruments for nociception, hyperalgesia, and inflammatory pain studies. - [Mazes and Tracking](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/mazes-tracking): Behavioral mazes and tracking systems for cognitive and anxiety-related testing. - [Behaviour, Conditioning and Reward](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/behaviour-conditioning-reward): Equipment for learning, conditioning, and reward-based behavioral studies. - [Motor Coordination](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/motory-coordination): Systems for assessing motor function, balance, and coordination. - [Transducers and Recorders](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/transducers-recorders): Sensors and recording instruments for physiological data acquisition. - [Ventilators and Anesthesia](https://ugobasile.com/products/categories/ventilators-anesthesia): Equipment for respiratory support and anesthesia delivery in research animals. ## Featured Products and Technologies - [Gait Analysis Systems](https://ugobasile.com/products/gait-analysis-system): Automated gait and locomotion assessment for rodents. - [Fear Conditioning Systems](https://ugobasile.com/products/fear-conditioning): Learning, memory, and associative conditioning studies. - [Startle Response and Prepulse Inhibition (PPI)](https://ugobasile.com/products/startle-response-prepulse-inhibition): Sensorimotor gating and neuropsychiatric research. - [Rotarod](https://ugobasile.com/products/rotarod): Assessment of motor coordination, balance, and motor learning. - [Hot Plate and Cold Plate](https://ugobasile.com/products/hot-cold-plate): Thermal nociception and pain sensitivity testing. - [Thermal Gradient Ring (TGR)](https://ugobasile.com/products/thermal-gradient-ring): Automated thermal preference and pain behavior assessment. - [Plantar Test](https://ugobasile.com/products/plantar-test): Thermal hyperalgesia and pain sensitivity evaluation. - [Dynamic Plantar Aesthesiometer](https://ugobasile.com/products/dynamic-plantar-aesthesiometer): Mechanical allodynia and von Frey-type testing. - [Climbing Test Systems](https://ugobasile.com/products/climbing-test): Motor function, muscle performance, and neurological assessment. ## Resources - [Product Catalog](https://ugobasile.com/products): Complete listing of all instruments and systems. - [Scientific Blog](https://ugobasile.com/blog): Articles on research methods and applications. - [XML Sitemap](https://ugobasile.com/sitemap-en): Full site index for crawlers and search engines.