Panlab circular pool provides the ideal environment to carry out the Morris water maze test (MWM test) and aquatic radial maze tests for the study of memory in rodents.

The water maze tank is manufactured in polypropylene and stands on a support with 4 wheels for easier displacement. Panlab proposes a complete solution for water maze settings since the heater, the water circulation pump, the level controller and the electro valve for pool filling are containing in a unique control box. The level controller acts directly on the Electro Valve, turning it off when the liquid arrives to the corresponding height. The water temperature is thermostated between 22 and 32 degrees depending on the environmental room temperature.

For Morris water maze (MWM) Test, a platform support is provided with two easily interchangeable platforms (80 and 110 mm) that can be located anywhere in the water maze.

For aquatic radial maze, a removable-floating eight radial-arm maze structure and associated platform can be provided upon request.

Both Morris water maze and aquatic radial mazes can be associated with the SMART Video-Tracking software for detection and analysis of animal displacements and behavior throughout the test.

La prueba de las cuatro placas (o test de Aron) es una prueba de ansiedad para detectar de manera rápida en el ratón las propiedades ansiolíticas de fármacos. 

 Básicamente, el aparato consiste en una jaula cuyo suelo está recubierto por cuatro placas metálicas rectangulares idénticas (8 × 11 cm), separadas por una distancia de 4 mm. Las placas están conectadas a un generador de choque que puede generar estímulo aversivo en la planta de las patas del animal.

Después de periodo de habituación, el animal es sometido a una descarga eléctrica al cruzar (transición) de una placa a otra, es decir, dos patas en una placa y dos patas en otra que suprime esta conducta de exploración de los alrededores, natural en los roedores. El número de cruces castigados se calcula generalmente por un período de 60 s. El tratamiento de los animales con una sustancia con propiedades ansiolíticas restablece la conducta de exploración, lo que se traduce por induce un aumento en el número de cruces castigados.

Use it once, and you will never use another one afterwards! PACKWIN 2.0. is the essential software for assessing operant conditioning studies!!! Nowadays, PACKWIN is supplanting all existing software alternatives for behavioural/operant chambers...

PACKWIN is a user-friendly and versatile Software platform developed with the aim to offer a powerful tool for conducting a wide range of experiments in different types of behaviour chambers. It typically controls the Panlab standard chambers for operant conditioning, self-administration, 5/9 hole and Vogel test, but its range of compatibility allows working with other behavioural chambers for Active/Passive avoidance and fear conditioning experiments...

Due to his new modular structure, PACKWIN 2.0. can be used in a highly flexible structure (Customised module – CS) allowing the experimenter to build a wide variety of different protocols for the configuration of basic programs for operant procedure (fixed and variable ratio, fixed or variable interval, fixed or variable DRL, positive and negative reinforcement, extinction, probability to obtain a reinforcement, etc.) with or without discriminative stimuli (light, sound) as well as more specific and complex user-defined protocols (conflict, DMTS, 5 choice serial reaction task etc.). Give the PACKWIN state-editor tool the oportunity to surprise yourself by its straightforwardness (no need of specific programming skills)!! A great number of editable raw data table and outpout numeric data&graph reports are provided integrated in the all-in-one structure of the software.

PACKWIN 2.0. also offers new specific experimental modules providing convenient protocol editor templates and ready-to-use run panels and data reports directly targeted to specific standard experiments such as the 5-choice Serial Reaction Time Task (5/9 hole module – HO) and the Vogel test.

In PACKWIN 2.0 version, a step ahead has been made in terms of user-interface and features that no other software available in the market can offer right now: new aperture assistant and experimental tool bar for guiding the user along the experimental process, new chamber simulator for checking your protocols without interrupting the data acquired from the real chambers, new batch analysis features for increasing the productivity of your experiment, integrated numerical and graph reports, direct exportation to Excel... and many other essential functions!!!!!! Who told you that performing operant conditioning studies was only reserved to experts?

The StartFear Combined system is a polyvalent system for conducting both fear conditioning and startle reflex experiments in one same enclosure, regardless the animal is a rat or a mouse (from 15grs to 300 grs. or more depending on the use or not of a restrainer).

Basically, the StartFear system allows recording and analysis of the signal generated by the animal movement through a high sensitivity Weight Transducer system.

The analogical signal is transmitted to the FREEZING and STARTLE software modules through the load cell unit for recording purposes and posterior analysis in terms of activity/immobility (FREEZING) or startle response characterization (STARTLE).

An additional interface associated with corresponding hardware allows controlling the stimuli (light, sounds, shock, air puff) from the STARTLE and FREEZING modules of the PACKWIN software (PACKWINCSST and PACKWINCSFR, respectively).

The StartFear cage is made with black methacrylate walls and a transparent front door. In fear conditioning experiment, the walls, cover and floor can be of different materials or colours. Moreover, a transparent cylinder can be placed into the experimental chamber in order to modify the contextual spatial perception of the subject during the test phase.

The 5/9 holes box is commonly used to evaluate attention performance using a visual discrimination task in laboratory animals.

The Panlab 5/9 holes box is composed by a test chamber, food or drink dispenser, a Link Box to connect it to the PC and the PackWin software. The particularity of the Panlab box is that 9 holes positions are available for the test providing an higher protocol flexibility: different number of holes used, different degrees of test difficulty.

The 5/9 holes box is assembled with black aluminium walls and a transparent front door. The box is equipped with an arc of 9 contiguous apertures set into the rear wall, a house light, a food pellet dispenser and photobeams to detect the nose-pokes into the food holder. The holes not used in the experiment may be blocked up using a metal insert. Each hole is equipped with photocell beams and internal LED providing visual cues specific to each hole. The intensity of the LED can be adjusted in Link Box using the digital selector. The box is placed on a stainless-steel platform and the associated tray is easily removable to clean animal excrements.

All Panlab five hole boxes are associated with the potent and versatile PackWin software in order to control the experiment (protocol configuration, experiment running) and obtain relevant data such as correct responses, incorrect responses, omissions, premature responses, perseverance responses, time out responses, total receptacle head entries, etc.

Different experimental paradigms for sustained attention, animal models of impulsive behaviour and lateralized-discrimination task can be conducted using the nine-hole box.

The 5-choice serial reaction time task (5CSRT task) is a task currently used in this kind of boxes. A specific Packwin software module is available for ready-to-use configurations, Run panel and Data reports directly targeted to 5-choice serial reaction tasks.

The new SEDACOM 2.0 version is a very easy, convenient and cost-saving data transfer software providing an ideal environment for visualizing the registered data on a computer and exporting them in a format that simplifies any further post-analysis processes. SEDACOM increases the functionalities of the devices, saving and listing automatically all the data of the current or stored sessions.

SEDACOM can be used with a wide range of devices from several lines of Panlab products for measuring physiology and behaviour in small laboratory animals (motor activity, pain sensitivity, body temperature, memory etc.)

The name of SEDACOM comes from SErial DAta COMmunication due to the direct communication of the Panlab devices to the computer through an RS232 serial port communication. Nowadays, some optional accessories are offered for allowing the use of the USB technology making possible running experiment on a laptop, if requested.

SeDaCom can adquire data from up to 9 devices at the same time, limited exclusively by the number of series ports available on the computer. An additional hub or board with serial ports (not included) can be installed to expand the number of connections. SeDaCom will automatically recognize the number of systems connected.

Productos relacionados

• Electronic Von Frey (up to EVF3 version)
• Hot Plate
• IR Actimeter
• Non invasive blood pressure
• Passive avoidance box
• Plethysmometer
• Rat paw pressure
• Rotarod
• Rotameter
• Shuttle box
• Tail-flick meter
• Treadmill

SHUTAVOID software is an implemented version of the Panlab SHUTTLE-8 software offering a user-friendly interface to conduct active and passive avoidance procedures in an automated manner. 

The Software SHUTAVOID controls independently up to 8 Shuttle Boxes or Passive Cages. The software detects how many cages are physically present and activates the corresponding windows. The system includes a test mode to enables immediate and reliable checking of the functioning of all the elements of the experimental chamber. 

The program controls the presentation of visual and acoustic stimuli and shock duration, at the same time that it records the position of the experimental animal in each compartment of the experimental cage, deciding about stimuli presentation accordingly. 

Unlimited number of schedules can be defined and used either by common or different experimental cages. The protocol editor allows the configuration of all the basic parameters necessary to set an active and passive avoidance experiment: habituation period, duration of the inter-trial interval (fixed or randomized), activation and duration of the conditioned stimulus (light, sound or both), activation, latency and duration of the unconditioned stimulus (electrical shock), latency for considering the response as “null”, door status (open/closed), number of trials, cut-off time for response etc… 

The chambers can be defined as Independent (for classical active avoidance procedures), Master or Slaves (for yoked procedures in which the paired-yoked animals receive the same number and temporal pattern of stimuli as their master mates, but only the master animal controls the outcome of the response). 

The program runs automatically when the animal is detected in the cage (independently for each cage). During the acquisition of data, information about the protocol state, animal position and current data can be visualized for each cage on the corresponding control window. 

Data related to each of the observed animal responses are stored into result files that pick up the information acquired during the working session. The data files can be open and re-analyzed to generate ASCII-coded reports in which the information is summarized for each trial or groups of trials (user-defined). 

Smart 3.0, la última versión del sistema de video-tracking SMART lo hace todavía más flexible e intuitivo dentro del contexto de su uso para la evaluación automatizada de la conducta en una gran variedad de aplicaciones pre-clínicas y en neurociencias.

Ultima actualización disponible:

Datos proporcionados

• Tablas numéricas directamente exportables a Excel y proporcionando los cálculos para cada zona y/o intervalos de tiempo definido por el usuario.
• Una gran variedad de cálculos estándares relacionados con el registro de las trayectorias de los animales: tiempo/distancia/entradas en zonas, velocidad... – y cálculos más avanzados: alternancia espontanea, error de Whishaw’s, direccionalidad media, indicio de paralelismo, tendencia rotatoria, rotaciones, alzamientos…
• Lista de transiciones de zonas, de actividad global y de eventos proporcionando datos sobre la evolución/distribución en el tiempo de cálculos específicos
• Reportes de coordenadas de las trayectorias (X,Y,Z)
• Graficas de evolución de los grupos experimentales y exportación de las imágenes de las trayectorias

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• Campo abierto (P)
• Laberinto en cruz elevado (P)
• Laberinto en cero elevado (P)
• Caja negra y blanca (P)
• Piscina de Morris (P)
• Laberinto radial (P)
• Laberinto de Barnes (P)
• Laberinto en T (P)
• Laberinto en Y (P)
• Caja de preferencia de plaza - Negra y blanca (P)
• Caja de preferencia de plaza - Spacial (P)
• Natación forzada - cilindros (P)
• Caja de intereacción social (P)

Desde más de 10 años Harvard Apparatus proporciona unos instrumentos de cirugía alemanes durables y  de alta calidad. Recientemente, la empresa ha ampliado su oferta y introduciendo una gama más amplia de instrumentos destinados específicamente a la cirugía en pequeños animales de laboratorio. 

Harvard Apparatus proporciona una documentación detallada incluyendo todas las especificaciones técnicas de todos los instrumentos junto con fotos relacionadas para ayudar la elección de las opciones que cumplen con las necesidades del experimentador.

Los instrumentos quirúrgicos de Harvard Apparatus se forjan en Alemania bajo la ISO9001. El material utilizado resiste la corrosión y mantiene los bordes afilados para una precisión óptima del instrumento.

La compañía Harvard Apparatus ofrece una línea completa de productos para anestesia y cirugía en animales de laboratorio, de ventiladores hasta instrumentos de cirugía, control de temperatura y de monitorización fisiológica del animal.

Harvard Apparatus tiene muchos años de experiencia y proporciona documentación útil para sus clientes con el fin de facilitar el acceso a las características principales de los productos de manera rápida y eficaz. Su equipo de expertos, tanto en local como en sus representantes estaremos para ayudarles en seleccionar los mejores productos que satisfacen las necesidades específicas de cada cliente.

Con respecto a los sistemas de anestesia, Harvard Apparatus ofrece una amplia gama de equipos y accesorios:

• Vaporizadores
• Manifold
• Mascarás
• Sistemas de evacuación de los gases
• Circuit set para rodeores
• Cámaras de anestesia
• Tubos y conectores
• Mantas homeotérmicas

Para más información, consultar los catálogos y guías creados por Harvard Apparatus sobre anestesia y cirugía y que podréis encontrar en la sección Catálogos de esta página web.