The RotaRod is mainly used for motor coordination, balance testing, anti-fatigue drug screening and identification testing, acted as the effective tool to assess motor performance in rodents using the natural fear of falling as motivation. Our RotaRod not only allows you easily switch to Rats or Mice by changing its frame. Also, it is a cost-saving RotaRod apparatus to do mouse and rat RotaRod performance test, and very easy to replace.
Applicable: 6 Mice or 4 Rats can be tested by using the same control unit.
In the test, a rodent is placed on a horizontally oriented, rotating rod. Due to the height of the rod, rodents will tend to remain on the rod as fear of falling. As it rotates, either at a constant or at an increasing speed, rodents are forced to run thus to remain on the rod.
There are various rotation modes available in our RotaRod, constant, accelerating, rocking (back and forth) or through complex acceleration/deceleration ramps. The RotaRod can be switched to Rats or Mice by changing the rod frame only.
When the rodent falls off its cylinder section on to the plate below, the rotating time and the speed of falling will be recorded.
6 Mice or 4 Rats can be tested simultaneously and 8 protocols integrated in control unit to train and assess the motory coordination through the falling time.
