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Behaviour, Conditioning, Reward

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Since more than 50 years Ugo Basile designs and manufactures classic and innovative devices, essential in animal behavioral studies.

Whether your research involves the study of memory, learning, anxiety, depression, fear, stress, social interaction, addiction, or more complex behavioural protocols, we have the answer: our line of conditioning/avoidance cages, mazes, videotracking, etc. keeps growing thanks to always new devices and methods.

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    Mouse, Rat

    Antidepressant drugs and depression animal model genetic screening are commonly conducted by using the Tail Suspension Test (TST). This test is based on the aversive effect of hanging a mouse of rat by the tail, which elicits its struggling moving upwards in an attempt to escape (which is obviously not possible).

    The struggling attempt tends to be shorter in duration and translates...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat
    Load Cell and restrainer with embedded speaker and air puff for stimulation and startle/PPI detection

    Pre-pulse inhibition of the Startle reflex (PPI) is a phenomenon in which a weak stimulus (sound or light, or air-puff) suppress the startle response to a subsequent stronger startle stimulus (of the same kind).

    The interest in this technique is mainly due to the fact that impairment in PPI is normally linked to a dysfunction in the sensorimotor mechanism, which has been shown in...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    The Porsolt Forced Swim Test (FST), or Porsolt Swim Test (PST), also known as the Behavioral Despair Test, is centered on the way rodents respond to their threat of drowning. This has been correlated to their mood, or, more precisely to their level of depression, with non-depressed animals that swim longer than depressed animals, who, instead, give up and float immobile.

    By...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat
    Pellet Dispenser on fully automated Multi-Maze, without manger, lateral close up

    The Ugo Basile Pellet Dispenser works with pellets between 10 and 20 mg for mice and 20-45 mg for rats. It has an extremely high delivery accuracy thanks to the redundant photobeam check.

    An embedded electronic board manages the DC motor and the photodiodes. An ethernet cable connects the Pellet Dispensers to the 8 channel control unit to independently manage up to 8 pellet...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    Passive Avoidance Test is used to assess memory function based on the association formed between a specific environmental context, which the animal learns to avoid and an aversive stimulus – represented by a mild foot shock.

    Efficient and reliable. Silent, automated sliding door divides the dark and light compartments. Systems for mice or rats. Manage up to 4 cages with one...

  • Animal
    Mouse

    A classic way to assess short or long-term memory in small laboratory animals (rodents) using a fear-motivated avoidance task. Used routinely in animal model studies of aging and Alzheimer-type dementia, including the search for new therapeutic drugs.

    An efficient, reliable instrument for use with mice (or small rats). A silent, automated sliding door divides compartments. Precision...

  • Animal
    Mouse
    Operon Full System complete with Olfactrory Delivery System and Air Control System for Operon

    Set-shifting task has proven to be an effective preclinical tool for drug testing and genetic screening, with direct translational valence in healthy humans and patients with schizophrenia.

    The Ugo Basile Operon automatizes the Intra-/Extra-dimensional (ID/ED) attentional set-shifting battery of tests offering visual, olfactory and tactile stimulations, all controlled by software and...

  • Animal
    Mouse
    Videotracking
    Traditional, Infrared
    Operant Fear Conditiong Cage in a Fear Conditioning Isolation Cubicle, view of the operant wall

    The Operant Fear Conditioning Cage couples a classic skinner box with sound and light cues for complex experiments, as well as standard operant tests and fear conditioning protocols.

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    When rodents are exposed to inescapable and unpredictable stress, such as forced swim or inescapable foot shock, they often develop deficits in memory and learning tasks (e.g. Active Avoidance) and they often show analgesic reactions (S.I.A. Stress-Induced Analgesia).

    The Ugo Basile Set-Up for Learned Helplessness is based on a sophisticated generator of unpredictable random shocks...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    The flexible rodent Lickometer - Vogel Test can operate as both a simple software-based lickometer as well as a system for drinking-conflict experiments (coupled with electric shocks). For assessing anxiety and the anxiolytic effect of drugs.

    Rat and mouse models. Easy data collection within the included software for windows. Up to 5 cages can be managed by 1 PC.

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    The cubicle is a sound-attenuating chamber that isolates small animal subjects from distracting ambient light, sound and activity. For behavioral studies including operant behavior (Skinner), self-administration, etc.

    High-level soundproof efficacy, noiseless fan, control box. Extra fixtures (speaker and video camera holder) for fear conditioning studies. Available in standard, large...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat
    Fear Conditioning System. Cubicle front view with door open and animal cage with checkerboard contexts mounted

    The Ugo Basile Fear Conditioning system is composed of:

    • Isolation cubicle, including all electronics, fan, IR/VIS lights, camera (up to 16 cubicles can be connected to 1 PC)
    • The animal cage is available in different dimensions for rats and mice, plus the observational learning version to allow two animals to see each other. The standard...
  • Electric Schock Meter

    An essential instrument to measure current on Ugo Basile devices using electric shock grid, such the Fear Conditioning System, Active an Passive avoidance system.

    Give the research the ability to measure the electric shock current not measurable by a common volt-meter. To ensure that the same current is delivered on multiple electric shock grids, while performing multiple test in...

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    A 2-compartment box that offers visual and tactile differences. For evaluating the abuse potential of substances and the motivational effects of drugs in mice or rats.

    Interchangeable floors, optimized for use with video-tracking software or visual scoring, thanks to the grey, high-contrast color and non-smooth, non-reflective paint.

  • Animal
    Mouse, Rat

    A set up for testing active avoidance (also called automatic reflex conditioner or shuttle box), i.e. learning to predict the occurrence of an aversive event, based on the presentation of a specific stimulus. Enables performance of a wide range of avoidance experiments using a flexible schedule. Precise detection of avoiding aversive event. Manage up to 4 cages with one controller.

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