Pharmacologists and neuroscientists play a crucial role in the understanding of brain function and in the development of new treatments for human and animal diseases.
This often means studying the effects of drugs or other interventions and applying ethological techniques to the analysis of resulting behaviours.
Tracksys provides a range of complete systems for the automation of a wide variety of behavioural tests on laboratory animals using EthoVision XT and IR mazes.
More sophisticated behaviours can be analysed using The Observer XT and externally acquired data such as ultrasonic vocalisations, EEG, heart rate, temperature etc can also be inputted into either EthoVision XT or The Observer XT to give a more complete picture of a disease model or drug treatment.
| Observation | Product | |
|---|---|---|
| Score & analyse behaviours live or from video | The Observer XT | |
| Measure ultrasonic vocalisations | UltraVox XT | |
| Automatically monitor home cage behaviour of rodents | PhenoTyper | |
| Track movement and location of animals within an arena | EthoVision XT | |
| Assess the gait and footfalls of rodent models of diseases | CatWalk XT | |
| Examine memory, anxiety, activity etc in various paradigms | Mazes |
| Scenario | Recommended Product | |
|---|---|---|
| Social behaviour in group-housed animals | ||
| Maternal separation studies and monitoring calling behaviour in rat pups | ||
| Behavioural patterns in group-housed animals and hormone-behaviour interactions | ||
| Home cage testing, activity monitoring and circadian studies in rodents | ||
| Avoiding problems with coat colour variation (e.g. transgenics), sequences of animals with different coat colours and urine reflections | ||
| High-throughput screening (e.g. trials with 100+ zebrafish) | ||
| Passive avoidance and place preference tests | ||
| Resident-intruder and social interaction | ||
| Automation of the forced-swim test | ||
| Analysing pre-clinical drug effects |
