Department of General Surgery, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Papé Family Pediatric Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Lab Anim (NY). 2021 Aug;50(8):202-204. doi: 10.1038/s41684-021-00795-y.
Voluntary wheel running is a valuable metabolic intervention and well-established measure of physical activity in preclinical rodent models. Herein, we describe detailed assembly instructions and provide necessary resources for researchers to build their own running wheels from commercial-off-the-shelf parts and an open-source program at approximately a tenth of the cost of commercially-available options.
自愿轮式跑动是一种有价值的代谢干预措施,也是临床前啮齿动物模型中身体活动的常用测量方法。在此,我们详细介绍了组装说明,并为研究人员提供了必要的资源,以便他们使用市售零件和开源程序来构建自己的跑动轮,成本约为市售选项的十分之一。