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
Sociability Apparatus for Mice and Rats - 3-Chambered Social Test
Product Code:46503/46553
Category: Mazes, Tracking
The three-chamber test is the classic test to assess social behavior and memory in rodents. This may range from autism disease to dominance tests and social novelty. During the test one animal is freely moving while the other two are confined into circular grid bar cages.
The Ugo Basile system includes a high contrast or IR-transparent floor for the best quality video-tracking and grid bar cages, which enhance the animal interaction. Walls can be transparent or non-transparent, depending on experimental needs.
Background
- Rodent social behavior is a growing-interest field, especially because in the last decades most of the experiments have been run in isolated animals, and still are, in spite of the fact that mice and rats are social creatures.
- Rodents show a wide range of social behaviors from maternal care to sexual behavior, attachment, learning, dominance and altruism.
- The three-chamber test was first used by J. Crawley in 2004 with the aim of testing sociability and preference for social novelty, and therefore social memory.
- Today this test is used for studying neuropsychiatric disorders, transgenic models, and pharmacology/toxicology applications.
Durable, optimized for video tracking and rodent comfort
- The Ugo Basile system comes complete with:
- A grey, metal or IR-transparent removable floor which optimizes video-tracking, thanks to the bottom illumination (LUX 100, not included)
- A three-compartment chamber with removable doors
- Inner and external walls can be transparent or not
- Internal partitions can be easily removed for cleaning (or replaced with transparent ones, if preferred)
- Circular bar grid enclosures for the non-moving animals maximize animal interaction and have different heights and shapes to avoid animal climbing on the enclosure top (the rat version is cone-shaped)
- Different colours are available and different models for rats or mice
- The system can be completed with video-tracking software, IR-sensitive camera, vari-focal lens objective and ceiling mount
- Multiple cages can be tracked simultaneously
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Feature |
Benefit |
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Grey floor |
Gives high contrast with both light and dark animals |
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Metal bottom with special coating |
Gives a slightly rough surface, pleasant for the animals to walk on, and it’s easy to clean |
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Grid enclosures |
Maximize animal interaction and are available in different sizes/colors |
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Designed for Videotracking |
Works even with the most basic video-tracking software |
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Transparent or opaque walls and partitions |
Choose the best option for your experimental needs! |
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For Mice or Rats |
3 different sizes available |
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Animal |
Mouse Cage |
Rat Cage |
Rat Cage XL |
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Dimensions |
60 x 40 x 25(h) cm |
120 x 58,5 x 40(h)cm |
120 x 80x40(h)cm - external cage |
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Cages internal diameter |
7 cm |
15 cm |
15 cm |
| Cages height | 15 cm | 25 cm | 25 cm |
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Weight |
9Kg |
13Kg |
16Kg |
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Shipping Weight |
12Kg |
26Kg |
32Kg |
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Warranty | |||
| Warranty | Sociability are 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 initial application of the three-chamber sociability test, J. Crawley was for autism, by comparing the amount of interaction between a novel and a stranger subject.
Additional applications include sociability differences between genders, strains and any other variable, which may end up with a social preference.
Beyond autism, the Sociability test has shown significant translational power also in schizophrenia, where socially disrupted models were performing a worse social novelty inclination.
Procedure-wise, after a period of habituation the subject sociability is determined by measuring the time spent by the freely-moving subject in the proximity of the grid enclosures containing the first unfamiliar (stranger) mouse or rat.
A second stranger is then introduced in the box within its enclosure and the preference for the new mouse/rat can be easily assessed.
| Mouse Cage for Sociability, with opaque grey walls and partitions and lids, complete with following components: | |
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46503-003 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) grey, I.D. 7cm, 15cm(h) (2 pieces are provided) |
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46553-010 |
3-Chambered Opaque Grey Cage, with two doors, 60x40x22(h)cm |
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M-LM 570 |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color |
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Mouse Cage for Sociability, with transparent walls, partitions and lids, complete with following components: | |
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46503-003 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) grey, I.D. 7cm, 15cm(h) (2 pieces are provided) |
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46503-010 |
3-Chambered Transparent Cage, with two doors, 60x40x22(h)cm |
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46503-320 |
Set of two transparent lids |
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M-LM 570 |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color |
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Mouse Cage for Sociability, with transparent walls, partitions and lids, complete with following components: | |
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46503-013 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) white, I.D. 7cm, 15cm(h) (2 pieces are provided) |
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46503-010 |
3-Chambered Transparent Cage, with two doors, 60x40x22(h)cm |
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46503-320 |
Set of two transparent lids |
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M-LM 570 |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color |
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Grid Enclosure | |
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46503-003 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) grey, I.D. 7cm, 15cm(h) |
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46503-005 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) grey, I.D. 10.5cm, 18cm(h) |
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46503-013 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) white, I.D. 7cm, 15cm(h) |
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46503-015 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) white, I.D. 10.5cm, 18cm(h) |
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46553-320 |
Set of two transparent lids for 46553 |
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46552 |
Rat Cage for Sociability, with opaque grey walls and partitions, complete with following components: |
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46552-010 |
3-Chambered Opaque Grey Cage, with two doors, 120x40x40(h)cm |
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M-LM 1102 |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color, 120x40cm |
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46502 |
Rat Cage for Sociability, with transparent walls, partitions and lids, complete with following components: |
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46502-002 |
Grid Enclosure for Sociability (“stranger” cage) grey, I.D. 15cm, 25cm(h) (2 pieces are provided) |
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M-LM 1102 |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color, 120x40cm |
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M-LM 1340-F |
Metal Floor, special non-reflective color, 120x80cm |
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46512 |
Rat Cage for Sociability XL, with transparent walls, partitions and lids, complete with following components: |
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46512-010 |
3-Chambered Transparent Cage, with two doors, 120x80x40(h)cm |
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Videotracking | |
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60000 |
ANY-maze, flexible video tracking system designed to automate testing in behavioural experiments. Full License, including technical support and all updates for a period of 1 year. |
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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 |
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