Y-maze
The Y-maze allows animals to select between two arms based on memory or reward. Because the Y-maze’s arms have a gradual turn, animals understand the layout more quickly than a T-Maze, decreasing learning time. San Diego Instruments (SDI) also provides a MOUSE water tight Y maze. Including removable doors, and a variety of additional color options, SDI’s Y-maze adjusts to fit a wide range of experiments. San Diego Instrument’s (SDI) Y-maze is uniquely designed to be easy to use and clean as well as highly versatile.
Water Maze
Ideal for testing spatial and learning memory, the Water Maze’s design prompts animals to escape from water onto a submerged platform, using spatial cues to learn the platform’s location. San Diego Instruments (SDI) offers blue and white color tanks with no seams in the walls, avoiding inadvertent cues. Featuring nearly vertical walls and flat bottoms, the tank’s platform can be placed anywhere. SDI’s Water Maze also offers clear rectangular or round top multi-step platforms eliminating the need to color the water. SDI’s Water Maze platforms are available in fixed or adjustable height. Check out our Morris Water maze Blog
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T-Maze
Ideal for spatial learning or preference tasks, the T-maze structure allows animals to select between two arms based on memory or reward. San Diego Instruments (SDI) also offers a water tight MOUSE T-maze. Including removable doors, and a variety of additional color options, SDI’s T-maze adjusts to fit a wide range of experiments. SDI’s T-maze is uniquely designed to be easy to use, clean and transport, as well as highly versatile.
Sociability Apparatus
The Sociability Apparatus is designed to test for social behavior of one mouse towards others. This three chamber enclosure provides the perfect environment to acclimate and test social behavior. Removable walls allows for you to block off one side for the animal to roam freely from the wired cage. Or, place so the doors provide easy exploration behavior between the three chambers. Made of acrylic and used often along with a video tracking system such as SDI’s ANY-maze video tracking system.
Open Field-Single Enclosure
Ideal for testing emotionality and the evolution of basal activity,locomotor activity, anxiety, and willingness to explore, the Open Field – Single Enclosure by San Diego Instruments (SDI) tracks how animals respond to environmental modifications. With a variety of color options, SDI’s Open Field – Single Enclosure adjusts to fit a wide range of experiments. SDI’s Open Field – Single Enclosure is uniquely designed to be easy to use, clean and transport, as well as highly versatile. Backed by a one-year warranty and our first-rate customer service, purchasing an Open Field – Single Enclosure from SDI guarantees you an exemplary product and ongoing support.
Radial Arm Maze
Ideal for spatial learning or memory tasks, the Radial Arm Maze’s structure allows animals to select among eight arms. After selecting one arm, animals must return to the center before choosing another. SDI’s Radial Arm Maze also comes in a variety of additional colors, and includes manual entry doors to close off selected arms. SDI’s Radial Arm Maze is uniquely designed to be easy to use, clean and transport, as well as highly versatile.
San Diego Instruments (SDI) also offers a watertight radial arm maze. Contact us for information on the Water Tight Radial Arm Maze
Open Field-Convertible Enclosure
The Open Field Convertible Enclsoure is ideal for testing emotionality and the evolution of basal activity. The Enclosure tracks the animal’s response to environmental modifications. SDI offers a variety of color options and surface textures to work with your subjects. The Open Field Convertible Enclosure has been deisgned so it can quickly be changed from four arenas to a single large arena, fitting a wide range of experiments. The enclosure is uniquely designed and made out of ABS plastic allowing it to be easy to use, clean and transport, as well as highly versatile. The enclsoure can be paired with ANY-maze video tracking software to help automate your behavioral testing.
Elevated Plus Maze
Utilized to test anxiety-related behavior, the Elevated Plus Maze centers on rodents’ fear of open and elevated spaces. Arranged in a “+” shape, SDI’s Elevated Plus Maze has two closed and two open arms, as well as an open center. It is uniquely designed to be easy to use, clean and store by detaching arms. Backed by a one-year warranty and our first-rate customer service, purchasing an Elevated Plus Maze from SDI guarantees you an exemplary product and ongoing support.
Barnes Maze
Ideal for testing spatial learning and memory, the Barnes Maze motivates animals to hide from the bright, open platform by finding the small, dark “escape box.” Animals learn the escape box’s location without the stress of swimming or food deprivation and false escape boxes remove the possibility of inadvertent cues. San Diego Instruments (SDI) designed its maze to be easy to use, clean and transport. With a variety of color options, the maze adjusts to fit a wide range of experiments and is compatiable with ANY-Maze Video Tracking. The maze comes in both rat and mouse models and includes 20 explorations holes, 20 false escape boxes and one escape box.
