Apr 18, 2022

Public workspaceBalance beam assay to detect motor phenotypes in mice

  • 1Departments of Neuroscience and of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA;
  • 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
  • 3Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA;
  • 4Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program and MD-PhD Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA;
  • 5Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815
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Protocol CitationWilliam Hancock-Cerutti, Marianna Leonzino, Pietro De Camilli 2022. Balance beam assay to detect motor phenotypes in mice. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bp2l618edvqe/v1
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: April 17, 2022
Last Modified: May 31, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 60896
Keywords: ASAPCRN
Abstract
This protocol describes an assay to detect motor deficits in mice by testing their ability to traverse a thin dowel between towers.