A microcomputer-based data acquisition system for continuous recording of feeding and drinking by rats.
A microcomputer-based data acquisition system for continuous recording of feeding and drinking by rats.
D. West,Curtis Tengan,Wade S. Smith,H. Samson
1983 · DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(83)90106-3
Physiology and Behavior · 16 Citations
TLDR
A monitoring system to continuously record the daily pattern of drinking and eating of rats is described, based on a North Star microcomputer, which can record the amount of food ingested with temporal resolution of +/- 1.0 second and quantitative accuracy within +/- 5%.