Snsek-SA-FST Forced swimming test system

Brand: Penncentury SNSEK

Model:Snsek-SA-FST

The forced swimming tester is widely used in antidepressant drug screening and depression mechanism research: the rat and mouse forced swimming tester can record temperature, animal swimming and climbing behavior. The forced swimming tester puts animals (rat and mouse) into a limited space and makes them swim. At the beginning, the animals will swim desperately to escape. After a period of time, they will float and not move, with only their nostrils exposed to breathe, and their limbs occasionally paddling to keep their bodies from sinking. In fact, the animals have given up hope of escape, which is a behavioral despair. Antidepressant drugs, such as selective reuptake inhibitors, can effectively increase animal swimming and climbing behavior and shorten the immobility time of animals. The shorter the immobility time, the stronger the antidepressant effect, which is used as an indicator for antidepressant drug screening. The device contains a transparent water tank with a size of 20 (w) x 8 (d) x 18 (h) cm.