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Low-Cost Gait Analysis for Behavioral Phenotyping of Mouse Models of Neuromuscular Disease

Article DOI: 10.3791/59878-v • 05:53 min • July 18th, 2019
July 18th, 2019 •
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1Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, 2Duke Center for Neurodegeneration & Neurotherapeutics, Duke University School of Medicine, 3Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, 4Department of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, 5Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine

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Footprint analysis is a low-cost alternative to digitized gait analysis programs for researchers quantifying movement abnormalities in mice. Because of its speed, simplicity, and longitudinal potential, it is ideal for behavioral phenotyping of mouse models.

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