A combined system for measuring animal motion activities

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-63

  Young, M S ^a   Young, C W ^b   Li, Y C ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NAN JEON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animal activity; Infrared Light; Measurement; Real time; Single chip microcomputer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DIAZEPAM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; MICROCOMPUTER; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOTYPY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIAZEPAM; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFRARED RAYS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0033955863     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00156-9     Document Type: Article

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