(Cage for rat and mouse)

A living cage and running wheel assembly permitting the recording of spontaneous motor activity and circadian rhythms of rodents over long time periods, even their entire lifespans. It also allows the study of inactivity in laboratory rodents.

We have developed a device that adapts to a standard cage. Thus, an animal (rat or mouse) remains in its living area and has free access to the wheel. The equipment measures activity parameters (activity type, time, speed, sense of rotation etc.) in the long-term, even over the entire lifespan of the animal.

These sets of cages allow the measurement of activity variations and their timing over extended periods, making the system particularly useful for:

• Ageing studies,
• Pharmacology (measurements before and after treatment), anxiety and depression
• Temporal screening in all developmental models (prenatal and postnatal environments, inducible KB, defects, etc.).

• Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP compatible.
• Required configuration 1GHz and 256 Mo memory.
• Monitors average activity of each wheel.
• Records data for all wheels over very long time periods.
• Visualize and record in real time the turn number, sense of rotation, speed, acceleration and distance covered.
• Activity Recording with regular interval
• Detailed recapitulation by sequence of animal's activity in the wheel.

• Wheel precision: ± 30°
• Power supply: EC 15-V standard charger
• USB compliant
• Type I2C network interface
• Possibility of connecting to a network of 64 wheels

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