Weight bearing analgesiometer BIO-KWB-DUAL

for animal researchfor micefor rats

A unique device that provides automated measurement of weight bearing and force distribution over time during voluntary gait. Synchronized video tracking and force transducers measure gait dynamics, for a voluntary multi-step sequence as a subject (rat or mouse) traverses a corridor to its home cage. KWB is an innovative instrument for your research on analgesia, nociception and neuroscience, especially suited for work on Parkinson's disease, arthritis, spinal cord injury and more. BIOSEB Kinetic Weight Bearing (KWB), like the BIOSEB Dynamic Weight Bearing (DWB) instrument represents a giant leap forward in incapacitance testing where weight bearing on each paw is continuously and independently measured and analyzed automatically. The KWB instrument provides information on applied weight as well as the speed and acceleration of each paw during a voluntary walking sequence.. These data provide information about coordination and gait through paw to paw and step to step comparisons. Gait analysis has been extensively used in phenotyping of CNS diseases such as cerebral ischemia, neurodegenerative diseases, spinal cord injury models and some pain models like neurotrauma (Nerve Crush, SNI). BIOSEB has extended existing gait analysis by including the measurement of the force applied by each individual paw to the floor the animal is walking upon.