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Small Animal Behavior Core Laboratory
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The following tests are offered by the Small Animal Behavior Core Laboratory.  Other tests may be available upon request.  All users are required to fill out the service request form and specify the service(s) needed.  Some tests can be recorded on video/DVD upon request.

Anxiety-Related Behavior Tests

 

Elevated Plus-Maze

 

Light/Dark Preference (Emergence Neophobia)  

Memory Tests

 

Spatial Learning & Memory (Morris Water Maze)

 

Spatial Working Memory (Eight Arm Radial Arm Maze)

 

Passive (or Inhibitory) Avoidance

 

Pre-pulse Inhibition

 

Y-Maze

 

Fear Conditioning

 

Two-Trial Novel Object Recognition Task

  Five-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task

Motor Function Tests

 

Open Field Locomotor Activity

 

Rotarod

 

Grip Strength

Tests of Nociception

 

Tail Flick

 

Thermal Sensitivity Test

Screening Tests for Drug Side Effects

 

Conditioned Taste Aversion

 
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Abhijit Afzalpurkar, aafzalpurkar@mcg.edu
December 05, 2006