ABCF - Our offer
The Animal Behavior Core Facility (ABCF) is the new core facility at Karolinska Institutet for behavioral studies in mice and rats. ABCF is designed to provide optimal environment, state-of-the-art instrumentation and technical/educational support to perform behavioral tests ranging from basic phenotype characterization to advanced analyses.
ABCF consists of two nodes:
- Node KM-B (Campus Solna)
- Node PKL (Campus Flemingsbeg
Our users can book laboratory space and equipment at both nodes.
User fees
Users pay a one-off access fee (SEK 2000), which includes an introduction to the equipment and the rules at ABCF. Advanced courses on specific methods and instruments are also available (SEK 5000 kr).
Price list updated on 23 September 2022.
Internal pricing
- Hour: 200 SEK
- Day: 750 SEK
- Week: 2,500 SEK
- Month: 7,500 SEK
- Month for small room: 5,000 SEK
Computer analysis
- Hour: 50 SEK
- Day: 250 SEK
- Month: 800 SEK
External pricing
- Hour: 400 SEK
- Day: 1,500 SEK
- Week: 5,000 SEK
- Month: 15,000 SEK
- Month for small room: 10,000 SEK
Computer analysis
- Hour: 100 SEK
- Day: 500 SEK
- Month: 1,600 SEK
Corporate pricing
- Hour: 800 SEK
- Day: 3,000 SEK
- Week: 10,000 SEK
- Month: 30,000 SEK
- Month for small room: 20,000 SEK
Computer analysis
- Hour: 200 SEK
- Day: 1,000 SEK
- Month: 3,200 SEK
The cancellation fee is 50 SEK.
Equipment for mice in KM-B
Sensorymotor functions
- 4 Horizontal and vertical locomotory cages, Actimot TSE
- 4 Open Field cages: Noldus video tracking system
- 2 Rotarod, Ugo Basile
- Cat walk, Noldus
- Treadmill DigiGait, Mouse Specific
- 12 Running wheel cages, TSE
- Grip Strength
- Hot plate, Ugo Basile
- Balance beam walk
- Startle Response / Prepulse Inhibition
- Ultrasonic vocalization recording, Noldus
- 8 Activity Monitor cages, Phenosys
- CODA Non-Invasive Blood Pressure system, Kent Scientific
- 2 HP Z8 workstation with GPU for video tracking and machine learning based analyses
- RWD Fiber photometry recording system
Learning and memory
- Noldus EthoVision Video tracking systems XT17:
- Morris water maze
- Barnes maze
- Y- and T-maze
- Water Y maze
- Novel Object recognition
- 2 Multiple conditioning systems, TSE
- 6 IntelliCage systems, TSE
- 1 Intellicage system coupled to 2 animal gates and running wheels, TSE
- 4 Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen chambers and food reward with integrated optogenetics setup
Mood, motivation and reward
- Noldus EthoVision Video tracking systems XT17:
- Elevated plus maze
- Elevated Zero maze
- Marble burying
- Forced swim cylinder
- Social novelty
- Three-chamber sociability
- Hole nose poke board
- Conditioned place preference
- Light-dark box
- Multiple conditioning systems (TSE)
- IntelliCage systems (TSE)
- 4 Bussey-Saksida Touchscreen chambers and food reward
Equipment for rats in KM-B
Sensorymotor functions
- Open Field, Noldus Video tracking system
- Startle Response / Prepulse Inhibition
Learning and memory
- Noldus Video tracking systems:
- Novel Object recognition
- Y and T maze
- Fear conditioning
Mood, motivation and reward
Forced swim
Equipment for mice in PKL
Sensorimotor functions
- 2 Horizontal and vertical locomotion
- 4 Open Field, Noldus Video tracking system
- Rotarod, Ugo Basile
Learning and memory
- Noldus Video tracking systems:
- Morris water maze
- Barnes maze
- Y- and T-maze
- Novel Object recognition
- Radial arm maze
- Fear conditioning, Ugo Basile
- Passive avoidance, Ugo Basile
Mood, motivation and reward
- Elevated plus maze
- Marble burying
- Hole nose poke board
- Dark light box
- Forced swim
- Conditioned place preference
