General
equipment has a brake and can detect direction and speed of individual
bouts of running
One
wall has a lever and three nosekeys, a food dispensor and a water spout.
Rat pressing lever
Rat running
Download
video clip of a rat pressing the lever 10 times (FR 10) to gain access
to running for 10 sec.
Below:
Display
examples of waveform characteristics of individual bouts of wheel running.
Vertical
axis: Speed
Horizontal
axis: Time.
Above red line: Clockwise running, below red line: Counterclockwise running