About AfaSci
AfaSci, Inc., designs automated systems for in vivo monitoring of rodent behaviors. Our products and services accelerate drug development through better preclinical characterization of compounds at the neurobehavioral level. |
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AfaSci's Smart-Homecage™ system is a unique suite of instrumented homecages for automated rodent monitoring.
Available for a three month trial with full refund, the Sleep/Activity-HomeCage™ is our first product, suitable for preclinical drug development and other applications.
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- Noninvasive monitoring of mouse behaviors in a normal mouse home cage with bedding, food and drink
- Wireless radio frequency-based networking of multiple cages
- User-friendly software for data acquisition and automated data analysis
- Multi-cage monitoring for higher throughput phenotyping and in vivo drug screening
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- Behavioral phenotyping
- In vivo drug screening
- Neurobehavioral toxicology, e.g., eliminating compounds that induce sedation or alter locomotion
- Early in vivo pharmacokinetics (PK) prediction using behavioral changes as biomarkers for PK
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- Wake/sleep monitoring
- Locomotion and position tracking
- Monitoring of light/dark preference for anxiety testing
- Respiration monitoring
- Stereotypic and abnormal behavior, including death
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In this video of AfaSci's Touchscreen-Homecage™, a mouse has learned to touch a LCD screen when it displays a image pattern. If the mouse chose a 'right' image (e.g., triangle). it results in a reward with a pellet of food dispensed at the other end of the cage. [more]
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