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Long-term Blood Pressure Measurement in Freely Moving Mice Using Telemetry
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The goal of this protocol is to assess systemic blood pressure in conscious freely moving mice using implantable radio-telemetry devices.
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Recording Neural Activity in Freely Moving Mice Using Fiber Photometry
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2025
This video demonstrates a method for recording neural activity in a freely moving mouse using fiber photometry. In this method, neurons in a specific brain region express a genetically encoded calcium indicator. A stimulus is applied to this brain region, and the stimulus-dependent change in fluorescence is measured to identify neural activity.
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Multichannel Extracellular Recording in Freely Moving Mice
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The protocol describes the methodology of extracellular recording in the motor cortex (MC) to reveal extracellular electrophysiological properties in freely moving conscious mice, as well as the data analysis of local field potentials (LFPs) and spikes, which is useful for evaluating the network neural activity underlying behaviors of interest.
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A Cost-Effective and Minimally Invasive Protocol for Chronic Multi-Site Electroencephalography Recording in Freely Moving Mice
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This protocol was developed to create a reliable and easily accessible system for recording freely moving rodent EEG.
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Simple Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Freely Moving Mice
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Here, we describe a simple method to implant a commercial continuous glucose monitor designed for patients onto mice and provide the scripts to analyze the results.
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Awake movement preserves responsiveness that anesthesia or immobilization can alter. As a result, researchers can relate monitored biological signals to spontaneous activity, sensory cues, and task performance rather than viewing those signals in isolation. This connection helps clarify whether a physiological change accompanies behavior and supports more meaningful analysis of brain, motor, pain, or disease-related processes.
Spontaneous activity and sensory cues provide the behavioral context for interpreting biological signals. A response observed while a mouse moves through its environment can be associated with what the animal is doing or encountering at that moment. Linking these elements helps researchers examine how physiological mechanisms contribute to observable behavior instead of separating measurement from lived experimental conditions.
The main advantage is that measurements remain connected to movement and responsiveness, while unconsciousness and immobilization can introduce confounding effects. This distinction matters when the research question concerns behavior, sensory processing, motor control, learning, or pain. The model therefore supports examination of biological changes under conditions that more closely preserve the animal’s active interaction with its environment.
Researchers monitor selected biological signals or deliver experimental interventions while the mice remain awake and unrestrained. The resulting data can then be aligned with spontaneous movement, sensory cues, or performance on a task. This arrangement creates a direct framework for comparing physiological activity with behavior and for examining how an intervention changes that relationship.
This approach supports studies of brain function, pain, motor control, learning, and disease-related changes. Its value comes from connecting cellular or physiological mechanisms with observable behavior, which can reveal effects that are difficult to interpret when animals are unconscious or immobilized. It can also contribute to assessing potential treatments in relation to behavioral and physiological outcomes.
Researchers can evaluate how selected biological signals relate to spontaneous activity, sensory cues, and task performance, as well as how experimental interventions influence those relationships. In medical research, these observations may help connect mechanisms with disease-related behavior and support assessment of potential treatments. The resulting interpretation is strengthened because physiological findings are considered alongside the animal’s observable responses.