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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 180, Issue 2, Pages 296-303Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.04.008
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Behavior; Olfaction; Hole-board; Mice
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- Oseo-Anvar [EZUS Lyonl E1482.037]
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The present paper describes a behavioral setup, designed and built in our laboratory, allowing the systematic and automatic recording of performances in a large number of olfactory behavioral tests. This computerized monitoring system has the capability of measuring different aspects of olfactory function in mice using different paradigms including threshold evaluation, generalization tasks, habituation/dishabituation, olfactory associative learning, short-term olfactory memory with or without a spatial component, and olfactory preferences. In this paper, we first describe the hole-board apparatus and its software and then give the experimental results obtained using this system. We demonstrate that one single, easy-to-run experimental setup is a powerful tool for the study of olfactory behavior in mice that has many advantages and broad applications. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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