An Open Source Syringe Pump Controller for Fluid Delivery of Multiple Volumes

Publishing date: 2019-10-17

Published on: eNeuro

summary: Syringe pumps are a necessary piece of laboratory equipment that are used for fluid delivery in behavioral neuroscience laboratories. Many experiments provide rodents and primates with fluid rewards such as juice, water, or liquid sucrose. Current commercialized syringe pumps are not customizable and do not have the ability to deliver multiple volumes of fluid based on different inputs to the pump. Additionally, many syringe pumps are expensive and cannot be used in experiments with paired neurophysiological recordings due to electrical noise. The authors developed an open source syringe pump controller using commonly available parts. The syringe pump controller aims to enable new experiments to address the potential confound of temporal information in studies of reward signaling by fluid magnitude.

authors: Linda M. Amarante, Jonathan Newport, Meagan Mitchell, Joshua Wilson and Mark Laubach

link to paper: https://www.eneuro.org/content/6/5/ENEURO.0240-19.2019

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