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, which includes an introduction to the equipment and the rules at ABCF. Advanced courses on specific methods and instruments are also available.
- One-off access fee: SEK 3,500
- Training fee: SEK 6,000
Price list
The price list was updated in January 2025.
Cancellation fee
The cancellation fee is SEK 50.
- Hour: SEK 240 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 1,150 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 750 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 3,540 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 12,000
- Hour: SEK 480 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 2,300 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 1,500 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 7,080 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 24,000
- Hour: SEK 960 (up to 24 hours)
- Day: SEK 4,600 (from 1 to 6 days)
- Instrument rental fee per day: SEK 3,000 (up to 24 hours)
- Week: SEK 14,160 (from 1 to 4 weeks)
- Month (big rooms): SEK 48,000
Equipment for mice in KM-B
- 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
- 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
- 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 mice in PKL
- 2 Horizontal and vertical locomotion
- 4 Open Field, Noldus Video tracking system
- Rotarod, Ugo Basile
- 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
- Elevated plus maze
- Marble burying
- Hole nose poke board
- Dark light box
- Forced swim
- Conditioned place preference
Lab equipment
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Some of the ABCF lab equipment.