ABCF - our offer
The Animal Behavior Core Facility (ABCF) is the new core facility at 探花精选 for behavioral studies in mice and rats. ABCF is designed to provide optimal environment, state-of-the-art instrumentation and technical/educational support to perform behavioral tests ranging from basic phenotype characterization to advanced analyses.
ABCF consists of two nodes:
- Node KM-B (Campus Solna)
- Node PKL (Campus Flemingsbeg
Our users can book laboratory space and equipment at both nodes.
User fees
Users pay a one-off access fee, which includes an introduction to the equipment and the rules at ABCF. Advanced courses on specific methods and instruments are also available.
- One-off access fee: SEK 3,500
- Training fee: SEK 6,000
Price list
The price list was updated in January 2025.
Cancellation fee
The cancellation fee is SEK 50.
- Hour: SEK 240 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 1,150 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 750 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 3,540 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 12,000
- Hour: SEK 480 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 2,300 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 1,500 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 7,080 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 24,000
- Hour: SEK 960 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 4,600 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 3,000 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 14,160 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 48,000
Equipment for mice in KM-B
- 4 Horizontal and vertical locomotory cages, Actimot TSE
- 4 Open Field cages: Noldus video tracking system
- 2 Rotarod, Ugo Basile
- Cat walk, Noldus
- Treadmill DigiGait, Mouse Specific
- 12 Running wheel cages, TSE
- Grip Strength
- Hot plate, Ugo Basile
- Balance beam walk
- Startle Response / Prepulse Inhibition
- Ultrasonic vocalization recording, Noldus
- 8 Activity Monitor cages, Phenosys
- CODA Non-Invasive Blood Pressure system, Kent Scientific
- 2 HP Z8 workstation with GPU for video tracking and machine learning based analyses
- RWD Fiber photometry recording system
- Noldus EthoVision Video tracking systems XT17:
- Morris water maze
- Barnes maze
- Y- and T-maze
- Water Y maze
- Novel Object recognition
- 2 Multiple conditioning systems, TSE
- 6 IntelliCage systems, TSE
- 1 Intellicage system coupled to 2 animal gates and running wheels, TSE
- 4 Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen chambers and food reward with integrated optogenetics setup
- Noldus EthoVision Video tracking systems XT17:
- Elevated plus maze
- Elevated Zero maze
- Marble burying
- Forced swim cylinder
- Social novelty
- Three-chamber sociability
- Hole nose poke board
- Conditioned place preference
- Light-dark box
- Multiple conditioning systems (TSE)
- IntelliCage systems (TSE)
- 4 Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen chambers and food reward
Equipment for mice in PKL
- 2 Horizontal and vertical locomotion
- 4 Open Field, Noldus Video tracking system
- Rotarod, Ugo Basile
- Noldus Video tracking systems:
- Morris water maze
- Barnes maze
- Y- and T-maze
- Novel Object recognition
- Radial arm maze
- Fear conditioning, Ugo Basile
- Passive avoidance, Ugo Basile
- Elevated plus maze
- Marble burying
- Hole nose poke board
- Dark light box
- Forced swim
- Conditioned place preference
Lab equipment
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Some of the ABCF lab equipment.