ELEVATED ZERO MAZE

For assessing anxiety in rodents

Description
Key features
Specs
How to order

Description

The standard zero plus maze is a variation of the elevated plus maze used to assess anxiety-like behavior in small laboratory animals (rat/mice). 

In this task, the conflict between the innate fear that rodents have of open areas versus their desire to explore novel environments is exploited. Security is provided by the closed arms whereas the open arms offer exploratory value. When anxious, the natural tendency of rodents is to prefer enclosed dark spaces to opened brightly lit spaces. In this context, anxiety-related behavior is measured by the degree to which the rodent avoids the unenclosed areas of the maze. 

The Panlab zero maze is a cycling corridor elevated above the floor and provided with two open areas and two closed areas. The maze is made of odour-resistant black perpex material with no-reflective colour for eliminating any glare. 

The elevated zero maze can be used with a video tracking system such as the Panlab SMART video-tracking software. The maze is provided with a set of gray floor for optimizing the detection of darker animals in this context. 

 

Specs

 LE841 Rat - Diameter Ext.

 1050 mm

LE840 Rat – Diameter Int.

850 mm

LE840 Rat – Walls height

295 mm

LE840 Rat – Base Elevation

510 mm

LE845 Mice - Diameter Ext.

460 mm

LE845 Mice - Diameter Int.

350 mm

LE845 Mice – Walls height

170 mm

LE845 Mice – Base Elevation

500 mm

Material composition

Methacrylate

How to order

STANDARD ELEVATED-ZERO MAZES (optimized for video-tracking use!)

LE841

76-0680

Elevated zero maze for Rat

LE845

76-0369

Elevated zero maze for Mice

 

VIDEO-TRACKING OPTIONS (see details and accessories in SMART 3.0 brochure) 

SMART V3.0

76-0681

SMART platform including digital video recorder and START/STOP remote control (needs Experimental Modules)

SMARTCS

76-0682

Customizable Experiment Module for any kind of enclosures and experiment.

How to order

Please contact our local delegates or contact us directly for receiving a quote.

 

Key features

  • Floors with different color included (black and grey) and non-reflecting material for optimizing video-tracking studies
  • Odour-resistant material

 

 
 
 
 
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