Phenomaster

Species

Mouse

Fields of application

The Phenomaster system is used to investigate locomotor activity and ingestion behaviour in a home cage like environment. The mice are observed by a monitoring system in real time over several days without interference by an experimenter.

The model can be used for the following fields of application:

• Disease effects on locomotor activity and ingestion behaviour
• Drug administration
• Therapeutic efficacy
• Proof of concept

Endpoints / outcome parameter

• Water and food consumption
• Locomotor activity
• Rearing
• Biorhythm

Readout parameter

• Movement (x/y/z) [counts]
• Water and food consumption [g, mL]

Quality management and validation

• Controls
• Randomisation
• Blinded data collection and analysis
• Biometric expertise
• Internal quality management