Medicraft Electro Medicals
present a unique apparatus the MEDICRAFT DIGITAL PHOTO - ACTOMETER to
study the effects on spontaneous ambulatory activities of small animals such
as rats and mice to evaluate the effects of the drugs on the Central Nervous
system.
The use and operation are
very simple and as such it makes use of other cumbersome equipment’s like
Jiggle Cage, Work Adder, etc., obsolete and thus makes the researcher more
dynamic.
The Medicraft Digital Photo
- Actometer utilizes OPTO - ELECTRONICS System by using highly
sensitive Solid State Invisible Light receivers and transmitters.
It consists of an Activity
Cage or Well 30 x 30 x 30 cm in dimension with a wire mesh floor. Six pairs
of Light transmitters and receivers are placed around the outer periphery of
the activity cage so that it forms a mesh of beam in shape of square checks
at a suitable height from the floor of the activity cage. The locomotive
activity of the animal is recorded when it interrupts any one or more light
beams. The interrupted light signals are further converted into electrical
ones through a compact solid state circuitry and the activity is recorded on
a bright high speed Digital Counter for display. The light beam arrangement
is such that one animal under trail cannot block the all the light beams so
formed. Thus it makes the apparatus suitable to use with a single animal or
with a group.
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