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Abstract

Animal drug delivery systems and methods. Such a system includes a carrier cartridge to carry and dispense a plurality of drug doses, a monitoring device, and a controller operatively coupled with the carrier cartridge and the monitoring device. The controller operates the carrier cartridge to dispense at least one of the drug doses to an animal subject at each of a plurality of preselected dispensing intervals. The controller is also configured to operate the monitoring device to record the animal subject ingesting the dispensed drug doses. The system may be configured to provide drug pellets to mice based on researcher needs, allow for mouse monitoring to confirm drug delivery, enable behavioral studies to be conducted using operant condition, and/or to fit into a specific lab research animal cage.

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