Instruments for the analysis of

Animal Behavior

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Effect of learning on slow gamma propagation between hippocampus and cortex in the wild-type and AD mice

Congratulation to : Katarzyna J. Blinowska, Maciej Kamiński, Nathalie Macrez, Aline Marighetto, Pierre … Read more

Testing fat content or feeding behaviour as indirect selection criteria for feed efficiency using trout isogenic lines

Congratulation to : S. Pouil T. Kernéis E. Quillet D. Lallias L. Labbé … Read more

The impact of C-tactile low-threshold mechanoreceptors on affective touch and social interactions in mice

Congratulation to : Damien Huzard Miquel Martin François Maingret Jean Chemin Freddy Jeanneteau … Read more

Cerebellar dopamine D2 receptors regulate social behaviors

Congratulation to : Laura Cutando, Emma Puighermanal, Laia Castell, Pauline Tarot, Morgane Belle, … Read more

IMETRONIC is attentive to

researchers innovation

Anxiety – Depression

Some protocols to study anxiety and depression may be conducted into our Polymodal System.

Additionally to the apparatus introduced in this section, our Polymodal System, equipped as an example with retractable levers, pellet dispenser, trough with visit detection, drinking trough with lickmeter, has also been designed to study feeding behavior.

Drug dependency

We propose several apparatus that have been specifically developed to study drug dependencies. Moreover, our Polymodal System, with a drug intravenous self-administration equipment (nosepokes, cue-lights, syringe-pump, sound) is totally adapted to study drug addiction.

Learning – Memory

18 holes, Passive avoidance, Skinner, Radial Maze, Water Maze, T maze, Y maze, Y space, Shuttle box, Freezing, Polymodal system

Locomotion – Motor coordination

Actimeter ; Circular corridor; Open-field; Running wheel

Social interactions

We offer a lot of specific apparatus which allow social interactions to be studied.

Operant conditioning

Our Polymodal system for Rats or for Mice, is the best polyvalent system. On specific demands from researchers, we expanded the operant conditioning apparatus line in order to run experiment on head-fixed animals.

Videotracking

Our Videotracking software has been developed to be complementary to our experiment management software suite POLY. This permits a stable image acquisition and processing, and POLY manages the experiment as it receives the target’s coordinates from the Videotrack.

Compensators and rotary joints

IMETRONIC develops solutions to run behavioral experiments with electrophysiological recordings, optogenetic stimulations, and calcium imaging simultaneously and in a synchronized way. Moreover, our assistants aim at suppressing the constraints due to cables / fibers / tubes.