Behavioral Analysis Facility
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SCAC
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HeadDr Jean Claude do Rego - Dr Jean Luc do Rego |
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ContactSCAC-IRIB Faculty of Health 22 boulevard Gambetta 76183 Rouen Cedex France Phone: +33 235 14 82 15 / +33 235 14 86 02 plateforme.scac@univ-rouen.fr |
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https://scac-irib.univ-rouen.fr
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Research TopicsThe Behavioral Analysis Platform (Service Commun d’AnalyseComportementale, SCAC), a scientific and technological infrastructure for biomedical research, is an IBiSA (Infrastructures en Biologie Santé et Agronomie) behavioral and functional exploration platform. SCAC platform allows to study feeding and metabolism disorders, nutrition, mood disorders (depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autistic spectrum), learning and memory, development disorders (neonatal development and maternal behavior), pain, motor behavior (spontaneous activity, motor coordination, sensorimotor gaiting), wake fulness and sleep disorders, addiction (appetitive oraversive properties), neurotoxicity, stroke, etc. It is localized in the research building of the Faculty of Health of the University of Rouen-Normandy. SCAC platform brings together various classical and high-performance automated equipments, both classical and newly developed, to the forefront of current technology. The studies in SCAC platform are performed according to French and European Communities Council Directives (86/609/EEC + 2010/63/UE). SCAC platform is open to regional, national and international scientific community or customers, where public and private customers can access in 3 modes including autonomous utilization, scientific collaboration and request of service. The mode of access to the platform depends on the customer’s request, the degree of expertise of the customer and the restricted access to certain equipment of the platform. Depending on the affiliation/origin of the customer (University of Rouen Normandy, public organization or private company) 3 different rates are applied (see https://scac-irib.univ-rouen.fr). |
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CompositionInvolvement of 5 professor, engineers, technicians corresponding to 3.8 full-time: 1 full-time from CNRS 1 full-time from Inserm 1.8 full-time from University of Rouen Normandy |
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FacilitiesNew equipment from the last three years - Noninvasive automated sytem measurement sleep, wake and breathing - High-performance digital imaging system for gait analysis in mouse, rat, guinea pigs and their neonates - Running wheel with automated workload control, coupled to drinking-feeding monitor - Metabolic and diuresis cages coupled to drinking-feeding monitor - Modular phenotypic cages - Modular actimeter with black and white compartments, hole board, baited holeboard, conditioned place preference options - Dynamic Weight Bearing test - Forced swim test with water wheel - Agora maze - Plantar test - Combustion calorimeter - Biochemistry analyser - Noninvasive Heart monitoring ECG screening system In-vivo X-Ray Microtomograph (microCT) |
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ActivityMain activities The Behavioral Analysis Platform (Service Commun d’Analyse Comportementale, SCAC) offers to the scientific community several services organized in 6 sections which covera large spectrum of applications in the field of neuroscience and experimental pharmacology, from the establishments and subsequent use of animal models, reproducing nutritional, neurodegenerative, emotional, dementia, sleep and motor diseases affecting humans, to the pharmaco-therapeutic aspects of new compounds, characterization of new biological targets and investigation of mechanisms of their action. This facility is specialized in the creation and evaluation of animal models, mainly rodents, to characterize complete behavioral phenotypes and in the reproducibility of our experimental models presenting deficits of neurological, psychiatric, metabolic order or associated to the ageing and stroke and consequently to be able to test new pharmacological drugs with therapeutic aim. It offers state-of-the-art technologies and professional resources to facilitate researcher’s projects. The offers relative to each section concern the following application fields:
Complementary activities
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Main Contributions
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Main Publications2021
2020
2019
2018
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