Validation of a method to measure total spontaneous physical activity of sedentary and voluntary running mice

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 235, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-58

  Silvennoinen, M ^a   Rantalainen, T ^a,b   Kainulainen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity index; Activity time; Behavior; Distance; Force plate; Intensity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; VALIDATION STUDY; ACTIMETRY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ACTIGRAPHY; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RUNNING; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 84904355732     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.06.027     Document Type: Article

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