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A Novel Microcontroller-Based System for the Wheel-Running Activity in Mice

Meina Zhu, Deepa Kamath Kasaragod, Kazuya Kikutani, Kei Taguchi and Hidenori Aizawa
eNeuro 3 September 2021, 8 (6) ENEURO.0260-21.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0260-21.2021
Meina Zhu
1Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
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Deepa Kamath Kasaragod
1Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
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Kazuya Kikutani
2Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
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Kei Taguchi
1Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
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Hidenori Aizawa
1Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0260-21.2021
PubMed 
34479979
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History 
  • Received June 8, 2021
  • Revision received June 28, 2021
  • Accepted August 28, 2021
  • Published online September 3, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Zhu 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.

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  1. Meina Zhu1,
  2. Deepa Kamath Kasaragod1,
  3. Kazuya Kikutani2,
  4. Kei Taguchi1 and
  5. Hidenori Aizawa1
  1. 1Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
  2. 2Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Hidenori Aizawa at haizawa{at}hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: H.A. designed research; M.Z., K.K., and K.T. performed research; H.A., M.Z., and D.K.K. analyzed data; H.A. and M.Z. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) KAKENHI Grants JP19H05723, 21H02581, and 21H00203 and a Grant-in-Aid for “Integrated Research on Depression, Dementia and Development Disorders” (JP18dm0107093h0003) carried out under the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). M.Z. is a recipient of Otsuka Toshimi scholarship.

Funding

  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)

    JP19H05723; 21H02581; 21H00203
  • Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)

    JP18dm0107093h0003

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Meina Zhu, Deepa Kamath Kasaragod, Kazuya Kikutani, Kei Taguchi, Hidenori Aizawa
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