Forced Swimming Experiment
The forced swimming test is used with rats, mice, or other laboratory animals to provide an inescapably oppressive environment by placing the animal in a confin
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Natural aging model for experimental animals
The life process of mammals is very similar to that of humans. With ageing, the tissues and organs of the animal body show degenerative changes and aging phenom
Water Poisoning Model
Serum hyponatremia is caused by rapid intraperitoneal injection of water into animals, which creates an osmotic pressure that promotes water entry into the brai
Eight-Arm Maze Experiment
As the name suggests, the "eight-arm maze" consists of eight arms spreading outward from the center, and there is a food provision device at the end of each arm
new object recognition
New object recognition assesses the memory capacity of the tested animal by the length of time the animal spends exploring familiar old and new objects, which i
tailgate experiment
The principle of the hanging tail experiment is to use the mice hanging tail after attempting to escape but can not escape, so as to give up the struggle, into
Elevated cross maze
The experiment was carried out on a "+" shaped device with two open and two closed arms, each of which was 10 x 50 cm long and 55 cm high. placing the animals i
TTC Staining
TTC (2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride) is a fat-soluble photosensitive complex. It is a proton receptor for the pyridine-nucleoside structural enzyme system
Cell morphology observation and size measurement
Any animal or plant cell has a specific morphological structure, which can be clearly distinguished under a microscope by fixing and staining it, and then the s