Sensorimotor and motor function testing
Motor coordination and balance: rotarod, balance beam, pole test and climbing cylinder. Strength and endurance: grip strength, inverted grid hang, forced exercise and running wheels, wireless or manual. Activity and gait: open field activity and gait analysis. Sensory function and sensorimotor gating: startle and prepulse inhibition, hot plate, tail flick, visual cliff and olfactory habituation.
They are worth running early in a new model: a motor or sensory deficit changes how the later tests should be read.
You provide
- Study hypothesis or comparison
- Mouse model or line informationStrain, genotype, or disease model
- Prior data, protocols or draft design
Request this service
Behavioral Core replies with scope and price.
Your details
Nothing is booked or charged until you accept a quote.
You receive
- Motor, strength, gait and sensory tests run on your cohort
- A baseline that tells you how to read the cognitive tests
- Analyzed data with statistics and interpretation
How it goes
You ask
Answer a few questions about your samples.
They scope it
The facility confirms it can be done and may ask for a detail or two.
You accept a quote
Price and timing, agreed before any work starts.
Results come back
Files arrive in your requests, with a note from the facility.
Where it's been used
Locomotor, strength, endurance and coordination testing in mice lacking the Parkinson's disease-associated protein CHCHD2.
Mouse midbrain dopaminergic neurons survive loss of the PD-associated mitochondrial protein CHCHD2
Nguyen, McAvoy, Liao, et al. · Human Molecular Genetics · 2021
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