IR-transparent mazes for video-tracking
Ugo Basile Infrared transparent mazes offer the highest contrast for the best video-tracking performance, empowering your behavioral experiments.
Animal
Mouse, Rat
Videotracking
Traditional, Infrared
Light/Dark Box for Mice and Rats
Product Code:47442/47443/47444/47445
Category: Mazes, Tracking
To perform Light/Dark Test with rats or mice for assessing anxiety. Useful in identifying and/or screening of anxiolytic and anxiogenic agents.
High quality maze with rat and mouse versions. Provides optimal results with video tracking software (high contrast, non reflective). Surface texture selected for rodent comfort. Easy to set up, easy to clean.
Background
- The Light/Dark Box approach/avoidance test is a characteristic tool used in the assessment of anxiety. The apparatus consists of a simple chamber divided into a dark and a light compartment. Rodents prefer darker areas to light areas. However, when presented in a novel environment, rodents have a tendency to explore. These two conflicting emotions lead to observable anxiety-like symptoms.
- Mice are allowed to move freely between the two chambers. The number of entries into the bright chamber, the duration of each visit and related exploratory behaviors detected via a video tracking system are reliable parameters for assessing anxiolytic effects that may be useful in identifying and/or screening of anxiolytic and anxiogenic agents.
Durable, versatile
- High quality, easy to assemble. All materials are selected to be sturdy for reliable, durable mazes.
- Engineered with high contrast, non-reflective materials that are optimal for video tracking.
- Anti-slip, naturally warm, maze surface texture is selected for best rodent comfort.
- The cage is available for Mice or Rats. The standard model has transparent walls on the “light” compartment. Option of using ambient light or adding your own light source. Opaque white walls available as an option.
- Consists of an external box (transparent or white) and a black insert (or IR-transparent), thus also making it convenient for use as an open field.
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High-contrast colors |
Gives optimal results with any Video-Tracking software |
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Non-reflecting surface |
Guarantees optimal camera view and no glare |
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Options available |
Transparent or opaque white walls |
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Reasonably rough “warm” surface texture |
Selected for best rodent comfort, non-slippery |
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Quality materials |
Reliable and durable, easy to clean and store |
| Physical | ||
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| Animal | Mouse | Rat |
| Dimensions | 44x44cm | 50x100cm |
| Wall height | 40cm | 40cm |
| Start Box (dark chamber) I.D. | 42x20x40(h)cm | 48x48x40(h)cm |
| Test Box (light chamber) I.D. | 42x20x40(h)cm | 48x48x40(h)cm |
| External Wall color | Transparent or opaque (white) | Transparent or opaque (white) |
| Weight | 10Kg | 26Kg |
| Shipping Weight | 14Kg | 32Kg |
| Packing Dimensions | 55x55x27cm | 105x105x20cm |
| Warranty | ||
| Warranty | Light / Dark Box is covered by a 12-month warranty + 12 after product registration | |
| UB-Care | Additional UB-Care can be added for other 12 or 24 months | |
The test is based on the innate aversion of rodents to brightly illuminated areas and on their spontaneous exploratory behavior in response to mild stressors, that is, novel environment and light. Time spent in the lit compartment and the related exploratory behavior are reliable parameters for assessing anxiolytic effects that may be useful in identifying and/or screening of anxiolytic and anxiogenic agents.
The original apparatus consisted of a small dark safe compartment (one third) and a large illuminated aversive compartment (two thirds), while more recently other models have been validated (Takao and Miyakawa 2006) in which the size of the two chambers is the same.
Another difference between the original design and other models available is that the lit compartment is made of opaque white plastic. These differences, namely the size and transparency of the light chamber, allow for the simultaneous detection of bright-space anxiety as well as open space anxiety in the original version of the test.
| Products | |
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47442 |
Light/Dark Box for Rat, 50x100x40(h)cm, Start Box (dark chamber) and Test Box (light chamber) I.D. 48x48x40(h)cm. Transparent external walls |
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47443 |
Light/Dark Box for Mouse, 44x44x35(h)cm, Start Box (dark chamber) and Test Box (light chamber) I.D. 42x20x35(h)cm. Transparent external walls |
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47444 |
Light/Dark Box for Rat, 50x100x40(h)cm, Start Box (dark chamber) and Test Box (light chamber) I.D. 48x48x40(h)cm. Opaque walls |
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47445 |
Light/Dark Box for Mouse, 44x44x35(h)cm, Start Box (dark chamber) and Test Box (light chamber) I.D. 42x20x35(h)cm. Opaque walls |
| Optional | |
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47442-W |
Light/Dark Box for Rat, with white opaque walls |
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47443-W |
Light/Dark Box for Mouse, with white opaque walls |
| Videotracking | |
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60000 |
ANY-maze Software |
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47400-040 |
B/W USB Camera, including day&night 2.8-12.0mm varifocal lens, 5m USB cable and ceiling support |
J. Crawley and F. K. Goodwin: "Preliminary Report of a Simple Animal Behavior Model for the Anxiolytic Effects of Benzodiazepines" Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 13(2): 167-170, 1980
B. Costall et alia: "The Effects of ACE Inhibitors Captopril and SQ29, 852 in Rodent Tests of Cognition" Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 33(3): 573-579, 1989
M. Bourin and M. Hascoët: “The Mouse Light/Dark Box Test” J Vis Exp. 463(1): 55-65, 2003
K. Takao and T. Miyakawa: "Light/dark Transition Test for Mice" JoVE 1: e104-e104, 2006
