Main features:
l Powerful three point tracking function;
l Rich tracking objects;
l Support multiple behavioral boxes;
l Support simultaneous tracking of 16 cameras;
l Powerful input and output control function.
Application:
l Learning and memory;
l Anxiety and depression;
l Neuropsychiatric changes in animals;
l Drug addiction, etc
Use literally any maze
Zones: Draw shapes to divide your apparatus into areas, then combine areas to create any number of zones.
Sequences: Define sequences to detect movements between areas or zones.
Immobility and freezing: Automatically detect immobility and freezing, perfect for fear conditioning.
Track with precision
Whole animal: Use whole-animal tracking to precisely detect arm entries.
Three-point tracking: Track the head, centre and base of the tail to provide both location and orientation.
Accuracy: Track accurately, even in poor light or low contrast, without setting any obscure parameters.
Connect to almost anything
Acquire: Use purpose-built ANY-maze interfaces to acquire data from levers, photobeams, sensors, running wheels…
Control: Also control speakers, pellet dispensers, optogenetic lasers, syringe pumps, shockers, lights…
Adjust: Change shock intensity, alter tone frequency, set a laser’s duty cycle…even while a test is being performed.
Easily design complex tests
Automate: Use procedures, built from a few easily understood statements, to automate your tests.
Straightforward: Procedures can be simple – for example ending the test if the animal finds a water-maze island.
Sophisticated: Or they can incorporate complex rules for what should happen when, based on the animal’s behaviour.
Follow an intuitive test schedule
Automatic: ANY-maze automatically maintains a schedule showing the status of all the tests in your experiment.
Stages and trials: Break an experiment into multiple stages containing repeated trials – for example, training and probe.
Stay in control: The schedule is flexible-skip tests, retire animals, or just add tests as you go.
Benefit from flexible testing
High throughput: Increase throughput by running independent tests in up to 40 apparatus simultaneously.
Live data: View live information during tests, such as zone visits or the state of inputs and outputs.
Real-time warnings: Have warnings, such as a dispenser running out of pellets, reported immediately and noted in the test’s results.
Access hundreds of measures
Extensive: Results are available for the whole apparatus and for each zone, point, sequence, behaviour, input and output.
Per zone: Results are analysed for the entire apparatus and for each defined zone.
Across time: Results are reported for the duration of the test, for equal length timebins, and for any specific periods.
Visualise & analyse results
Visualise: Visualise test results using track plots, heat maps and charts.
Analyse: Analyse between treatments, strains, genders, trials, etc, using over 30 built-in parametric, non-parametric and post-hoc tests.
Transfer: Copy and save data in a variety of formats for easy transfer to programs such as Excel, SPSS and Statistica.
