Wireless Low Profile Running Wheel

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Mouse Low-Profile Wireless Running Wheel

The current trend of housing mouse colonies in individually ventilated cages (IVCs) has allowed dramatic increases in housing density, improved environmental control, and better biosecurity. However, the low profile configuration of many mouse IVCs has made it more difficult to add enrichment devices, such as a running wheel, to the mouse home cage. Our new wireless low-profile mouse running wheel represents a state-of-the-art device that enables quantitative measurements of mouse running levels in most standard IVCs. We use the popular “Fast Trac™” running wheel surface from BioServ (www.bio-serv.com) along with our proprietary wireless transmitter to get running data from the home cage to computer without any wires or cables.

System Highlights

• Measure circadian rhythms while adding environmental enrichment
  
• Quantify running levels and how they correlate with behavioral changes
  
• Fits easily into most standard mouse ventilated rack cages
  
• Open running surface enables wheel running studies on mice that are instrumented or tethered
• Easy to clean: wheel surface and plastic support base can be cage washed; wheel transmitter can be wiped with sanitation cloths
• Affordable and economical
• Each Hub can monitor up to 40 wheels (4 hubs per computer)
• Optional wireless Environmental Sensor enables measuring
  temperature, relative humidity, and light levels in the vivarium.
• Energy efficient and nearly maintenance free. (3 AAA Batteries required)

SOF-860
Wireless Running Wheel Manager Data Acquistion Software

Features

• Record running wheel data from wireless running wheels
  
• Record environmental data such as temperature, humidity, and light levels
  
• Export data to Excel for analysis

Wheel manager software is used to record wheel running data from our wireless running wheels.
Temperature, relative humidity, and light levels can also be tracked in wheel manager software using ourwireless environmental sensor.

   Wheel Manager software creates a database file that stores data from running wheels and environmental sensors.

  example of exported Data file

Export Data Seamlessly into Other Programs

Export data from the wheel manager database to a file that can be imported into Excel, or other
data analysis software, for generating actigrams and periodigrams.

Data export options include:

• User-definable time bin
  
• Export entire file or just a select time range
• Export to XLS (Excel) file for analysis or PDF for hard copy printout