Conscious Mouse Stereotaxic Precision Locator

Overview

The Conscious Mouse Stereotaxic Precision Locator is an awake mouse stereotaxic positioning system for laboratories that need stable cranial access while the animal remains conscious in a controlled behavioral scene. The product family uses digital single-manipulator positioning and lets the lab select a disk, rolling ball, rolling wheel, or rolling drum platform configuration for head-fixed mouse brain research.

The buying value is the combination of skull fixation, precision targeting, and an awake platform choice on one existing ConductScience page. Instead of treating the locator as a generic frame, this listing is organized around the experiments scientists actually plan around it: two-photon imaging, patch clamp recording, optogenetics, endogenous optical imaging, cyclic voltammetry, ion sensing, microdialysis analysis, and multichannel silicon electrode recording.

Use this page when the workflow needs a conscious mouse stereotaxic precision locator rather than a standard anesthetized stereotaxic frame or a head-fixed treadmill. The locator supports brain-positioning and platform selection; the surrounding station should be completed with the microscope, recording or stimulation hardware, microdialysis or electrode path, head-fixing plates, warming, monitoring, and preparation-support equipment selected for the study.

Scientific Use

Awake head-fixed mouse workflows are used when anesthesia would interfere with the neural activity, behavioral state, sensory processing, or physiological context being measured. The selectable platform types give the lab a way to match the animal support surface to imaging, recording, optical stimulation, microdialysis, voltammetry, ion sensing, or electrode-recording setups that require stable skull positioning.

The digital single-manipulator path helps position the brain-access hardware while the platform keeps the animal in the appropriate conscious support context. That makes the product most useful for functional brain studies where the station has to coordinate cranial stability, behavioral context, microscope or probe access, and animal-support planning.

Buying Fit

Choose the disk platform for a compact stable scene, rolling ball or rolling wheel configurations when the study benefits from mouse movement context, and rolling drum when that platform geometry better fits the behavior, imaging, or recording setup. ConductScience can review the selected platform with head-fixing plates, stereotaxic holders, microscopy, electrophysiology, optogenetics, microdialysis, anesthesia transition, warming, and monitoring products before fulfillment.