TSE is a leading supplier of animal research instrument worldwide. They focus area mainly on behavior, metabolism, inhalation and physiology studies. They provide highly automated as well as modular-build products on animal research studies.
10.00 – 11.00 am : Presentation talk by Dr Holger Russig
11.00 – 12.00 pm : Student discussion / Lab visit
12.00 – 13.00 pm : Research group discussion
A review of novel approaches to monitor behavioral/metabolic changes in rodents Characterization of animal models of human diseases often faces enhanced data variability due to suboptimal equipment, experimenter interference and animal stress. In recent years, TSE Systems has pioneered a home cage based research approach to increase animal welfare, reduce experimenter interference and increase throughput. Despite the flexibility and versatility of complex phenotyping instrumentation such as PhenoMaster or IntelliCage, the precise indirect calorimetry module of the PhenoMaster requires single housing in the homecage.IntelliCage the only available high throughpu behavioral phenotyping tool in which animals can be investigated within their social context, can be now combined with the new Stellar Telemetry system allowing the parallel measurement of behavioral and physiological parameters such as blood pressure, heard rate as well as biopotentials including EEG under group housing conditions. In conclusion, these unified approaches open new horizons for a large variety of high-quality in-vivo research in biomedical and preclinical science.