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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 190, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/64754
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- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Kakenhi [16H06543, 21H05296]
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This article introduces a reconfigurable maze for spatial navigation behavior assessment, addressing the limitations of traditional mazes in scalability and reproducibility. The reconfigurable maze consists of multiple components that allow flexible configurations of maze pathways to evaluate various aspects of spatial navigation behavior.
Several maze shapes are used to test spatial navigation performance and behavioral phenotypes. Traditionally, each experiment requires a unique maze shape, thus requiring several separate mazes in different configurations. The maze geometry cannot be reconfigured in a single environment to accommodate scalability and reproducibility. The reconfigurable maze is a unique approach to address the limitations, allowing quick and flexible configurations of maze pathways in a repeatable manner. It consists of interlocking pathways and includes feeders, treadmills, movable walls, and shut-off sensors. The current protocol describes how the reconfigurable maze can replicate existing mazes, including the T-shaped, plus-shaped, W-shaped, and figure-eight mazes. Initially, the T-shaped maze was constructed inside a single experimental room, followed by modifications. The rapid and scalable protocol outlined herein demonstrates the flexibility of the reconfigurable maze, achieved through the addition of components and behavioral training phases in a stepwise manner. The reconfigurable maze systematically and precisely assesses the performance of multiple aspects of spatial navigation behavior.
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