The 2-temperatures choice nociception test (thermal place preference) paradigm allows working on unrestrained animals let free to choose between two compartments with different temperature.
The weight bearing test represents an unsurpassed method for assessing spontaneous pain and postural deficits in laboratory animals.
The inflammation test aims to follow the evolution of the inflammatory processes experimentally induced in paws of rodents.
The Randall-Selitto test consists in an application of a uniformly increasing pressure on the paw to assess the threshold response to pain.
The hot plate test is commonly used for evaluating thermal pain sensitivity.
Tail-Flick Test (D’Armour & Smith Test) is a nociceptive essay based on the measurement of the latency of the avoidance response to thermal stimulus in rodents.
The apomorphine test using an rotameter has proved to be a popular test for screening the behavioral effects of a wide variety of lesions, drugs, and other experimental manipulations on the brain of rodents.
The startle response is a brainstem reflex elicited by an unexpected acoustic or tactile stimulus.
The rotarod is a standard test of motor coordination, balance and fatigue in rodents.
The novel object test is a free exploration paradigm that provides animals the opportunity to explore a novel object in a familiar environmental context.