Active and passive avoidance testing for both rats & mice

Features

• Reliable, accurate avoidance learning data
• Increased productivity for psychopharmacology & neurobehavioral testing with computer integration
• Up to 8 enclosures for rapid testing of large groups of animals
• Each enclosure runs independently
• Easy-to-use, menu-based software
• CE compliant
• FDA CFR Part 11 compliant

Product Overview

SDI’s GEMINI? Avoidance System is designed for active and passive avoidance testing in rats and mice. It can be configured with up to 8 enclosures for testing large groups of animals. Each enclosure starts and runs independently. Converting the GEMINI system to test mice instead of rats is possible in less than five minutes.

The GEMINI test station is a two compartment enclosure with interchangeable rat or mouse grid floor, 16 photobeams for precise location of the animal, two “house” and two “cue” lights, two sound generators and the SDI animal shocker – a solid state feedback-controlled, constant current shocker with 8 unique outputs. SDI’s GEMINI shocker is the only one of its kind to display the actual current being administered to the subject.

GEMINI’s easy to use menu-based software offers passive avoidance (“Classic”and “Trials to Criterion”) and active avoidance options, full test diagnostics, runtime data display and a fully formatted report. GEMINI’s standard data file can be transferred into other data management or statistical programs.