Stoelting™ Ugo Basile Sociability Apparatus

Description

• Ideal for the investigation of autism-related behaviors: Social approach Resistance to reverse a learned pattern of behavior Shortly after a period of habituation a mouse's sociability is determined by evaluating the amount of time the test mouse spends approaching a wire cage containing an unfamiliar stranger mouse
• In the second phase of testing a second unfamiliar mouse is introduced into the Sociability Apparatus
• The preference for social novelty is then determined by measuring the amount of time the test mouse spends approaching the chamber containing a new, unfamiliar stranger mouse (also restricted to a small wire cage), as compared to time spent in the chamber containing the now-familiar mouse
• Resistance to change is measured by two reversal learning tasks
• Testing in the Sociability Apparatus can be completely automated by the ANY-maze software system.