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We are delighted to announce that our fully automated novel object recognition (NOR) study using smart-Kages has been published in the latest issue of Cell Reports Methods |
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The study was led by our co-founder Dr. Julija Krupic (UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Cambridge), in collaboration with Prof. John O’Keefe, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. The Krupic lab developed and validated a fully automated NOR paradigm that operates entirely within the mouse home cage. |
“Our approach largely eliminates human biases and environmental inconsistencies in the novel object recognition test,” says Loukia Katsouri, Senior Research Associate in the O’Keefe Lab at SWC. “The setup improves welfare and standardisation, and it captures more naturalistic behaviour. Our goal is to use this test to measure memory deficits in mice with features of Alzheimer’s disease.”
