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Gait Analysis (CAT#: STEM-AE-0014-WXH)

Introduction

Animal gait analysis takes experimental animals (rats and mice) as the research object, selects corresponding animal disease models according to different experimental purposes, observes and records the gait behavior changes of experimental animals under the disease state.<br />Carry out comprehensive analysis and statistics on the corresponding gait parameters, and then provide scientific experimental basis for the pharmacodynamics and (or) toxicological evaluation of animal models.




Applications

At present, gait analysis has been widely used in geriatric diseases, such as:
• Parkinson's disease (frantic gait)
• Corticospinal tract lesion (spastic hemiplegic gait and spastic paraplegic gait)
• Bilateral frontal lobe lesion (apraxia gait)
• Frontal lobe (cortex or white matter) lesions (microgait)
• Bone marrow lesions (scissors gait)
• Extrapyramidal lesions (fluttering and twisting, paradoxical gait)
• Cerebellar lesions (ataxia gait)
• Cerebellar lesions (chorealike gait)
• Alcohol or barbiturate intoxication (drunk gait)
• Psychogenic disease (hysterical gait)

Procedure

1. A few days before the start of the experiment, the animals need to be trained in such an environment as the gait channel. During training, every time the animal can move from one side of the channel to the other at a relatively uniform speed, without obvious pauses or standing in the middle, it indicates that the training is almost successful.
2. When starting the formal test, first adjust the width of the track to adapt to the rat or mouse experiment.
3. Adjust the intensity of green light and red light to achieve the best recognition effect.
4. Put the animal in from the left side, and the software will automatically start collecting. When the animal walks to the other side normally, the collection will stop.

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