Methods & Techniques

Our tools enable us to utilise the following methods:

• Surgical examination of rodents, cannulation, cerebrospinal fluid and blood collection

• Stereotoxic operations, brain lesions, pathway transection

• Chemogenetics, viral injections

• Behavioral tests of emotional changes and maternal motivation of animals

• Automatic video analysis

• Continuous monitoring of behavior with Intellicage

• Neuronal pathway tracing using transgenic mice and viral techniques

• Laser microdissection, RT-PCR, real-time fluorescent PCR

• Bioinformatics of systems biological data

• RNA amplification for DNA microarray and sequencing

• In vitro electrophysiology, patch-clamp technique

• Molecular Biology Techniques

• In situ hybridization histochemistry, autoradiography

• Immunostaining and fluorescence microscopy

• Western blot techniques