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A Hardware-and-Software System for Experimental Studies of the Acoustic Startle Response in Laboratory Rodents

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We developed and tested a novel hardware-and-software system for recording the amplitude of the acoustic startle response in rodents. In our experiments, the baseline indexes of acoustic startle response in laboratory rats and pre-stimulation inhibition under the standard delivery of acoustic stimulation were similar to those evaluated by other investigators on foreign devices. The proposed system is relatively cheap and provides the possibility of performing experiments on freely moving specimens. It should be emphasized that the results of studies can be processed with free-access software.

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  1. Moscow State Technical University of Radio Engineering, Electronics, and Automatics, Moscow, Russia

    E. F. Pevtsov

  2. P. K. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Z. I. Storozheva, A. T. Proshin & E. I. Pevtsova

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Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 160, No. 10, pp. 403-407, October, 2015

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Pevtsov, E.F., Storozheva, Z.I., Proshin, A.T. et al. A Hardware-and-Software System for Experimental Studies of the Acoustic Startle Response in Laboratory Rodents. Bull Exp Biol Med 160, 410–413 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10517-016-3183-y

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