In vivo-Pharmacology and Behavioral Analyses


  • Equipment for stereotactic manipulations at rat and mouse brain stereotactic frames, setup for acute and continuous microinfusion, electrode and catheter implantation
  • Rotarod (rat and mice)
  • feeding-drinking-monitoring system (16 places, rat and mice)
  • IR-activity monitoring system (12 places, rat and mice)
  • Multicage Videomot Monitoring system (rat and mice) for monitoring of open field behaviour, behaviour at the elevated plus maze, at the T- and radial arm maze and in the forced swim test
  • Acoustic startle box (rat and mice)
  • Telemetric EEG recording setup for freely moving rats with simultaneous video recording intracerebral and surface registration (combined with microinfusion or microdialysis); postacquisition data transformation, spectral analysis
  • Intracerebral microdialysis setup for rat and mice
  • HPLC (EC) for neurotransmitter analysis