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The Psychopharmacology laboratory has a wide range of facilities for conducting behavioural, neurochemical and immunohistochemical research with rodents.
Basic infrastructure
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Rodent breeding facilities
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Colony for holding up to 1200 rats
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Mouse facilities to be added in near future
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American optical cryostat
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Olympus BX-40 microscope
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Polaroid DCM Microscope camera
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Gillson peristaltic perfusion pump
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Small animal surgery
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-80°C freezer
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National Instruments Labview and Strawberry Tree automation and data acquisition
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Extensive collection of Mac and PC computers for data collection and analysis
Facilities for behavioural testing
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Social interaction test (with automated video analysis)
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Elevated Plus maze
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Emergence test
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Cat odour avoidance test
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Ultrasonic vocalization measurement, analysis and playback
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Object recognition test (with automated video analysis)
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Radial arm maze
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Olfactometers for assessing olfactory discrimination, olfactory learning and olfactory memory
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Intravenous drug self-administration chambers
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Locomotor activity testing chambers (automated video tracking)
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Conditioned place preference
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Intracranial self-stimulation
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Operant chambers
Physiological testing
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Datasciences International telemetry system for body temperature and cardiovascaular measurements
Neurochemistry
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Shimadzu HPLC system with refrigerated autosampler and eletrochemical and UV detection
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Receptor binding assays performed in conjunction with Department of Pharmacology
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Quantitative autoradiography performed in conjunction with Andy Lawrence (Florey Institute, Melbourne)
Immunohistochemistry
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Facilities for c-fos immunohistochemistry
- Labview image analysis system
- Plate Reader
- GCMS
Proteomics and Peptodomics Facilities
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