Repeated measurements of hindlimb CatWalk variables in normal rats

DOI: 10.34945/F54S3W

DATASET CITATION

Aceves, M., Dietz, V. A., Dulin, J. N., Jeffery, U., Jeffery, N. D. 2020. Repeated measurements of hindlimb CatWalk variables in normal rats. Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury. ODC-SCI:432. doi: 10.34945/F54S3W

ABSTRACT

STUDY PURPOSE: To provide a set of reference data for expected variability in hindlimb locomotor outcomes for normal young adult rats using the Catwalk.

DATA COLLECTED: Data that are automatically collected on hindlimb function in rats by the CatWalk. Recordings were made on 16 male 9-week-old (250-275 g) Sprague-Dawley rats after a training period and at 8 weekly intervals.

PRIMARY CONCLUSION: There is a large variation in within-rat variability between different CatWalk outcomes. Selection of the most appropriate variables can improve sensitivity of experiments that measure locomotor outcome.

KEYWORDS

Locomotor function, reference change value, variability

PROVENANCE / ORIGINATING PUBLICATIONS

Miriam Aceves, Valerie A Dietz, Jennifer N Dulin, Unity Jeffery and Nicholas D Jeffery .An analysis of variability in ‘CatWalk’ locomotor measurements to aid experimental design and interpretation. eNeuro 9 July 2020, ENEURO.0092-20.2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0092-20.2020

DATASET INFO

Contact: Nick Jeffery (njeffery@cvm.tamu.edu)

Lab: Nick Jeffery Lab

ODC-SCI Accession: 432

Records in Dataset: 384

Fields per Record: 124

Last updated: 2020-08-13

Date published: 2020-08-13

Downloads: 15

Files: 2

LICENSE

Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0)

FUNDING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mission Connect

CONTRIBUTORS

Miriam Aceves [ORCID:0000-0002-1778-0213]

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Collage Station, TX

Valerie Dietz [ORCID:0000-0002-9951-8445]

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Collage Station, TX

Jennifer Dulin [ORCID:0000-0001-5767-4290]

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Collage Station, TX

Unity Jeffery [ORCID:0000-0002-0495-2741]

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Collage Station, TX

Nicholas Jeffery [ORCID:0000-0002-9812-1788]

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX; Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Collage Station, TX