Grip Strength Test
Objective: Measurement of forelimb muscular strength in mice as part of a standardized behavioral phenotyping test battery
This is a Grip Strength Test protocol using mouse as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps, 1 equipment items. Extracted from a 2008 paper published in Physiological Genomics.
Model and subjects
mouse • Four inbred reference strains: C57BL/6J, C3HeB/FeJ, BALB/cByJ, 129S2/SvPas • unknown • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
Estimated timing pending
Core workflow
Grip strength test administration
Primary readouts
- Forelimb muscular strength measurements
- Test output parameters that demonstrated reproducibility across laboratories
Key equipment and reagents
Verified items
0
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Grip strength test administration
Conduct grip strength testing as part of the standardized operating procedure for behavioral phenotyping
Note: Test was part of a cross-laboratory validation study involving five research centers across France, Germany, Italy, and the UK
View evidence from paper
“grip-strength test generated reproducible results between laboratories for a number of the test output parameters”