Air hockey for mice
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Mobile HomeCage is a different approach for awake, behaving experiments. It’s from Helsinki-based Neurotar.
Their marketing video is worth a viewing. You won’t regret it.
Mobile HomeCage is a different approach for awake, behaving experiments. It’s from Helsinki-based Neurotar.
Their marketing video is worth a viewing. You won’t regret it.
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I will admit in the first few months after finding that company I have been curious what device they tried to patent:
http://www.neurotar.com/products/ivted/
(hopefully not an aspirator)
Hi SLH! The link you most likely intended to provide is this one: http://www.neurotar.com/us-patent-granted-for-neurotars-mobile-platform-for-awake-animal-imaging/
The one you mentioned refers to an unrelated device (in vivo total emission detector, designed to improve detection efficiency and enhance the penetration depth of two-photon microscopy).
I don’t think SLH’s post was mistaken.
Aspiration has been used to image deep brain structures, and it sounds like SLH is hoping for a more elegant approach.
SLH might be expecting something along the lines of this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19365467
Spot on L š
Another approach:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251437
3i sells these, btw, in case anyone wants to try them. It’s not on their site yet, but they do sell them.
http://intelligent-imaging.com
Vucinic’s work is always welcome at Labrigger, and he worked on this problem years ago:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16880851
I see what you mean, L. Thank you for clarifying this!
I saw this in the flesh at the FENS meeting in July. Looking at it again now Iām struggling to picture how it will integrate well with a 2-P scope, just in terms of space restrictions ā maybe something like the Neurolabware system?
Hi Sias, Mobile HomeCage is compatible with popular 2-P microscope brands & models (including Olympus, Zeiss, Prairie, Scientifica, Thorlabs). This page has a video which shows how MHC fits under the microscope and how it can be moved if needed (at 1:52): http://www.neurotar.com/products/mobilehomecage/
Hi again, I just noticed that the old link to MHC doesn’t work any more… Here is the up-to-date link: https://www.neurotar.com/research-instruments
Perhaps worth mentioning: the fifth generation of Mobile HomeCage has the tracking capability. I’d be really curious to hear your opinions on how it can be used in behavioral+cellular research (e.g., combining 2photon calcium imaging with mouse locomotion tracking during a spatial learning task): https://www.neurotar.com/product/mobile-homecage-with-tracker