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Barnes Maze Testing Strategies with Small and Large Rodent Models

DOI :

10.3791/51194-v

February 26th, 2014

February 26th, 2014

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1Biomedical Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 2Division of Neurotoxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration

The dry-land Barnes maze is widely used to measure spatial navigation ability in response to mildly aversive stimuli. Over consecutive days, performance (e.g. latency to locate escape cage) of control subjects improves, indicative of normal learning and memory. Differences between rats and mice necessitate apparatus and methodology changes that are detailed here.

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