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Behavioral assays to gauge an animal’s innate anxiety levels often utilize the approach-avoidance dilemma—conflicts arising from the drive to explore new environments and forage for resources (approach), while avoiding harmful threats (avoidance).

The Light-Dark Test and the Elevated Plus Maze Task are widely used to evaluate the anxiolytic or anxiogenic effects of transgenic or pharmaceutical interventions in rodents. Unlike some other anxiety assessment assays that expose rodents to harmful stimuli (e.g., electric shocks), these two assays rely on rodents’ innate preference for dark, enclosed spaces and aversion to heights and brightly lit, open areas.

Our LuminTrck Light-Dark Box (item # 06010) and Elevated Plus Maze (item # 06030) employ an infrared touchscreen frame for tracking animal positions. This system automatically records and analyzes animal behavior in a highly efficient, unbiased, and cost-effective manner.

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Key features

Cost-effective: no expenses for cameras and video analysis software.
Data efficiency: Wireless data transfer. Minimized data storage requirements with compact data files.‍
Enhanced throughput: conduct experiments on multiple animals without being limited by the number of cameras.

Details

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Light Dark Box

The Light Dark Box for both mice and rats measure:

Duration in each chamber (sec)
Distance traveled in each chamber (cm)
Number of light-dark transitions (counts)
Latency to the first transition (sec)

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Light Dark Box: Mouse

Apparatus: 16 × 16 × 14 in (40 × 40 × 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Light chamber: 16 × 8 × 14 in (40 × 20 × 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Dark chamber: 16 × 8 × 14 in (40 × 20 × 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Door: 2 × 5 in (5 × 13 cm) (W × H)
Options: Customizable

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Light Dark Box: Rat

Apparatus: 40 × 20 × 14 in (102 × 50 × 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Light chamber: 40 × 10 × 14 in (102 × 25× 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Dark chamber: 40 × 10 × 14 in (102 × 25× 35 cm) (L × W × H)
Door: 3.3 × 8 in (8.4 × 20 cm) (W × H)
Options: Customizable

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Elevated Plus Maze

The Elevated Plus Maze for both mice and rats measure:

Number of entries (open arm vs closed arm)
Distance in open/closed arm (cm)
Time in open/closed arm (sec)
Amount of time spent mobile/immobile (sec)

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Elevated Plus Maze: Mouse

Apparatus: 14 × 14 × 20 in (35 × 35 × 60 cm) (L × W × H)
Light chamber: 14 × 2 × 20 in (35 × 5 × 60 cm) (L × W × H)
Closed arm: 14 × 2 × 20 in (35 × 5 × 60 cm) (L × W × H)
Wall: 6 in (15 cm) (H)
Options: Customizable

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Elevated Plus Maze: Rat

Apparatus: 20 × 20 × 20 in (50 × 50 × 50 cm) (L × W × H)
Light chamber: 20 × 4 × 20 in (50 × 10× 50 cm) (L × W × H)
Dark chamber: 20 × 4 × 20 in (50 × 10× 50 cm) (L × W × H)
Wall: 16 in (40 cm) (H)
Options: Customizable

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Add-on modules

Applications

Exploration and anxiety