Beam Balance Test

Beam balance test is commonly used to assess motor coordination and balance in rodents. Our company, as a professional animal behavior testing organization, is committed to providing classical customized testing service solutions to customers worldwide, including beam balance test. The beam balance test we provide can accelerate customers' innovative research projects in brain injury, gene manipulation, and drug therapy.

Experimental Principle

The beam balance test is used to test the balance ability, muscle strength and motor coordination of mice. The size of the balance beam is usually a round beam with a length of 1 m and a diameter of 17 mm or a square beam with a width of 14 mm. One side of the balance beam was placed in a black square box, and the experimental animals were placed on the other side of the balance beam. The motor coordination and balance ability of the experimental animals were assessed by the time and number of slips through the balance beam into the black square box within 60 S.

Experimental Flow

The beam balance test is favored by many researchers because of its simple device, short test period and reliable results. The whole experiment was divided into a training period and a testing period, which lasted for three days.

• Training period

On the first day, mice were allowed to enter the black square box through the balance beam, and each mouse was trained at 2-hour intervals for a total of 3 times.

Repeat the same steps from the first day.

• Testing period

Experimental animals through the balance beam to reach the small dark box, record the time to reach the dark box and the number of slippage, If they failed to reach the small wooden box time recorded as 60s.

Fig. 1 Beam balance test in mice.

Applications

The application of the beam balance test is where it becomes very practical and interesting. We provide high quality beam balance test to help our clients save time and obtain scientifically reliable results in the following related studies.

• Used to test the effects of stroke, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and motor cortex injury, traumatic brain injury and other diseases on motor function.
• Evaluate the effects of drugs used to treat brain-related disorders.
• To study the alteration of motor skills in experimental animals by genetic manipulation.

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