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Rodent Activity Detector (RAD), an Open Source Device for Measuring Activity in Rodent Home Cages

Bridget A. Matikainen-Ankney, Marcial Garmendia-Cedillos, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Krynitsky, Ghadi Salem, Nanami L. Miyazaki, Tom Pohida and Alexxai V. Kravitz
eNeuro 24 June 2019, 6 (4) ENEURO.0160-19.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0160-19.2019
Bridget A. Matikainen-Ankney
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Marcial Garmendia-Cedillos
2Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section, Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Mohamed Ali
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Jonathan Krynitsky
2Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section, Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Ghadi Salem
2Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section, Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Nanami L. Miyazaki
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Tom Pohida
2Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section, Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
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Alexxai V. Kravitz
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
3National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0160-19.2019
PubMed 
31235468
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History 
  • Received April 30, 2019
  • Revision received June 4, 2019
  • Accepted June 8, 2019
  • Published online June 24, 2019.
Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 2019 Matikainen-Ankney et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Bridget A. Matikainen-Ankney1,
  2. Marcial Garmendia-Cedillos2,
  3. Mohamed Ali1,
  4. Jonathan Krynitsky2,
  5. Ghadi Salem2,
  6. Nanami L. Miyazaki1,
  7. Tom Pohida2 and
  8. Alexxai V. Kravitz1,3
  1. 1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
  2. 2Signal Processing and Instrumentation Section, Office of Intramural Research, Center for Information Technology (CIT), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814
  3. 3National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Alexxai V. Kravitz at lex.kravitz{at}gmail.com.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: B.A.M.-A., M.G.-C., M.A., J.K., G.S., N.L.M., T.P., and A.V.K. designed research; B.A.M.-A., M.A., N.L.M., and A.V.K. performed research; B.A.M.-A., N.L.M., and A.V.K. analyzed data; B.A.M.-A. and A.V.K. wrote the paper; M.G.-C., M.A., J.K., G.S., and A.V.K. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institutes of Health.

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  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

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