Maze-cum-activity cage with automatic recording system for evaluation of circadian incentive drives in rats.
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Maze-cum-activity cage is devised in order to record the activity shift patterns of incentive drive of rats. The main features of this instrument are its low cost, simplicity or recording system and evaluation of time shift patterns of the activity when animal is moving for preferential cues such as food, water socio-sexual environment provided in the cage during a 24 hour period.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology
دوره 24 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980