Metabolism Monitoring System
The small animal metabolism monitoring system has the advantages of real-time statistics, automation, and high accuracy, which greatly improves the efficiency of drug research and development and basic life science research, and fundamentally reduces the data bias and error caused by manual operation.The Metabolic Cage is used to collect and separate rodents’ urine and feces and allows measurement of their food and water intake for qualitative and quantitative studies. Short term and long-term monitoring are available. It is common use in pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, toxicology, nutrition, obesity metabolism, diabetes, cardiovascular, transgenic, geriatric disease and other research.
Device Introduction
- Metabolite separation: PVC material separator, separate urine and feces accurately, convenient for urine and feces biochemical analysis.
- Gas metabolism module: Gas metabolism module is optional, for analyzing animal oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production.
- Monitoring of Drinking/Eating: High-precision sensors, accurate to 0.01g, real-time detection of animal drinking and eating in different periods.
- Specially food trough, food net, barrier bar design to prevent food spilling and excrement mixed.
- Food and water can be added at any time without interrupting the experiment, and easy to disassemble and clean.
- Precise sensor with accuracy 5mm; and can conduct multiple channels of metabolism monitoring.
- Metabolism device equips with ultra-quiet cryogenic module for storage of metabolite, preventing urine volatilization, biochemical reactions and the decomposition of compounds.
Software Introduction
- Software can supports up to 12 metabolism cages. 96 can be customized.
- Automatically calculates the activity based on the animal’s movement trajectory.
- Position tracking adopts depth classification model and position sensitive model algorithm, which achieves high-speed and accurate tracking effect, with detection accuracy 5mm. The activity of the rodent can be counted separately in X, Y, Z axis, total activity and separate activity of each axis can be counted and the number/time of standing can be recorded.
- Automatically records and displays the data in real time, users can review freely.
- Data analysis, screening, user-defined time section analysis, one-click data result export can be achieved by our software controller.
- Animal information can be edited freely, containing group, gender, age and weight.
Parameter Record
- Number of standing
- Number of drinking/eating
- Time of standing (accuracy 0.1s)
- Time of drinking/eating (accuracy 0.1s)
- Frequency of drinking/eating
- Volume of drinking/eating
- Activity
