ArticleJournal of biological engineering2017
A simplified microwave-based motion detector for home cage activity monitoring in mice.
Article in Journal of biological engineering, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development of a Printed Sensor and Wireless Measurement System for Urination Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Vibration-Based Non-Contact Activity Classification for Home Cage Monitoring Using a Tuned-Beam IMU Sensing Device.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Low-cost, open-source device for simultaneously subjecting rodents to different circadian cycles of light, food, and temperature.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- LocoBox: Modular Hardware and Open-Source Software for Circadian Entrainment and Behavioral Monitoring in Home Cages.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A Vibration Sensing Device Using a Six-Axis IMU and an Optimized Beam Structure for Activity Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- PiE: an open-source pipeline for home cage behavioral analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Blueprints for measuring natural behavior.iScience · 2022Review
- Non-Contact Activity Monitoring Using a Multi-Axial Inertial Measurement Unit in Animal Husbandry.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Major oscillations in spontaneous home-cage activity in C57BL/6 mice housed under constant conditions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Automated Home-Cage Monitoring During Acute Experimental Colitis in Mice.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Inexpensive Home Infrared Living/Environment Sensor with Regional Thermal Information for Infant Physical and Psychological Development.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Three Pillars of Automated Home-Cage Phenotyping of Mice: Novel Findings, Refinement, and Reproducibility Based on Literature and Experience.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Review
- Establishing simple image-based methods and a cost-effective instrument for toxicity assessment on circadian rhythm dysregulation in fish.Biology open · 2019Article
- Article
- Novel Activity Detection Algorithm to Characterize Spontaneous Stepping During Multimodal Spinal Neuromodulation After Mid-Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2019Article
- Rodent Activity Detector (RAD), an Open Source Device for Measuring Activity in Rodent Home Cages.eNeuroArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundLocomotor activity of rodents is an important readout to assess well-being and physical health, and is pivotal for behavioral phenotyping. Measuring homecage-activity with standard and cost-effective optical methods in mice has become difficult, as modern housing conditions (e.g. individually ventilated cages, cage enrichment) do not allow constant, unobstructed, visual access. Resolving this issue either makes greater investments necessary, especially if several experiments will be run in parallel, or is at the animals' expense. The purpose of this study is to provide an easy, yet satisfying solution for the behavioral biologist at novice makers level.
resultsWe show the design, construction and validation of a simplified, low-cost, radar-based motion detector for home cage activity monitoring in mice. In addition we demonstrate that mice which have been selectively bred for low levels of anxiety-related behavior (LAB) have deficits in circadian photoentrainment compared to CD1 control animals.
conclusionIn this study we have demonstrated that our proposed low-cost microwave-based motion detector is well-suited for the study of circadian rhythms in mice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.