Core Facility – INBC Equipment
We provide equipment, training and guidance for all behavior tests. If you are interested in anything that is not listed, please contact us: claudia.pitzer@pharma.uni-heidelberg.de
Cognitive Functions / Learning & Memory
- T-Maze
- Morris Water Maze
- Radial Maze
- Novel Object Recognition
- Active Place Avoidance according to Sacktor
- Passive Avoidance
- Fear Conditioning
- Puzzle box
- Intellicage
Sensory Motor Functions
- Open Field Activity
- Grip Strength Test
- Rotarod
- Horizontal Ladder (grid walk)
- Montoya's Staircase
- Running wheels
- CATWALK
- Dynamic Weight Bearing
- Treadmill
- Cylinder test
- Parallel Rod Floor test
- Beam Balance rod
- Cliff avoidance reaction
Anxiety and Depression-like Behavior
- Hole board exploration test
- Open Field Activity
- Elevated Plus Maze
- Dark-light exploration
- Forced Swim Test
- Tail Suspension
- Sucrose Preference Hyponeophagia
- Cliff avoidance
Social Interaction
- Social Interaction (Ethovision)
- Three Chamber Test
- Ultrasonic Vocalization (AVISOFT)
Pain Sensitivity
Reflex-based analysis
- Plantar (Hargraeves) test
- Hot / cold plate
- von Frey test for mechanical sensitivity
- Tail Flick
Non reflex-based analysis
- Dynamic weight bearing test
- Thermal place preference test
Analysis of emotional / motivational behaviors and spontaneous pain
- Conditioned place preference (CPP)
- Place escape avoidance paradigm (PEAP)
- Ultrasonic vocalization
Novel tests for pain sensitivity
- hole board test
- LABORAS
- running wheels
- open field
- Catwalk
Home Cage Observation and Voluntary Activity
- LABORAS
- Running Wheels
- Intellicage
Behavior Tracking System
- SYGNIS Tracker
- Ethovision
- AnyMaze