Use of electric field sensors for recording respiration, heart rate, and stereotyped motor behaviors in the rodent home cage

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 277, Issue , 2017, Pages 88-100

  Noble, Donald J ^a   MacDowell, Camden J ^a   McKinnon, Michael L ^a   Neblett, Tamra I ^a   Goolsby, William N ^a   Hochman, Shawn ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity levels; Behavioral monitoring; Electric field sensors; Heart rate; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; HEART RATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SEMICONDUCTOR; STARTLE REFLEX; STEREOTYPY; VIDEORECORDING; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; BREATHING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85007155239     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.12.007     Document Type: Article

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