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The Panlab/Harvard Apparatus Oxylet system for Neonates represents the first commercially available indirect calorimetry system allowing the metabolic analysis of a single neonatal rat.

Special low-flow regulators and highly sensitive gas analyzers have been incorporated into our famous Oxylet, thus eliminating the previous technological constraints hindering a reliable measurement of respiratory metabolism parameters. The resulting optimized sensitivity makes possible the assessment of early postnatal metabolism in rodent pups as young as 1-2 days!!!

First results were obtained with the collaboration of Dr. Jack Truman and Dr. Jesus Dominguez at the University of Southern California and will be presented in a special session of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC.

You are welcome to visit us on our booth number 2714 or contact techsupport@harvardapparatus for further details.

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Enjoy our introduction to a research area, compare tests, go over our "pros and cons" list, check out related human diseases… and eventually find the product bundle that best meets your needs by pinpointing the experimental test that better defines your research goals.

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The Panlab PheCOMP System is an automated modular tool developed in the context of the EC-funded PHECOMP project (STREP-SMES project presented under Call FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6; Contract Number: 037669) for allowing the behavioral characterization of several animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders related to compulsive behavior in a home cage environment.
Its modular design provides reliable solutions for any studies aiming to perform short and long term measurement of food & drink intake and activity.
This project is particularly relevant for compulsive disorders, including drug abuse and compulsive overeating, for it represents prevalent neuropsychiatric diseases that have a large health and socio-economic impact on the European population.
These disorders are produced by an alteration of the capability to control seeking for reward and are apparently linked by common neurobiological substrates.
In the PHECOMP project, reliable and predictive animal models are fully characterized and employed to better understand the mechanisms involved in those alterations and to design new therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatric disorders related to compulsive behavior.

Panlab Harvard Apparatus proudly introduces our newest additions to the Smart Junior family.

With the new SJTY T maze, Y maze Experimental Module Panlab enhances our Smart Junior line for memory studies, which until now was only represented by SJWM Smart Junior Water Maze Experimental Module.

With the new SJPP Smart Junior Place Preference Experimental Module Panlab opens up a new line of interest, reward & addiction.

More Experimental Modules will come soon, but meanwhile we would like to invite you to download Smart Junior 15 days free trial and check these new additions out!!

Panlab introduces its own Rodent Activity Wheel for the automated registering of animal voluntary physical activity in its home cage environment.

Panlab Activity wheel is complete, easy to use and has been designed to preserve animal life space inside the home cage.

Allentown Caging Equipment home cages are standard with this system, however other brands of cages are available under customer request.

Individual and multiple wheel turns counter systems are offered optional for a better experience.

The TriWise Technology is an innovation of Panlab R&D team enabling Smart Video Tracking System to extract an advanced model of the animal motion based not only on its centre of masses but also on its head and base-tail position along time.

This new technology also enables Smart to automatically identify and register complex animal behaviours like rotations, rearings... using only the image coming from the camera or digital video file without requiring additional external electronic devices.

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq: HBIO), today announced it had completed the purchase of Panlab s.l. of Barcelona Spain for approximately $5.0 million in cash. Panlab distributes, manufactures and develops products and software for life science researchers primarily in the neuroscience research market.

"With the acquisition of Panlab, we are able to expand our distribution channels by establishing a subsidiary in Spain. In addition, the acquisition provides us access into a segment of the neuroscience research market which we estimate to be between $35 million and $70 million," commented Chane Graziano CEO of Harvard Bioscience.

Mr. Graziano continued, "The acquisition also strengthens our Harvard Apparatus franchise for specialty products within the life science research market. We expect annualized revenues of this acquisition to be between $8 and $10 million at current exchange rates and the full year impact for 2008 on our non-GAAP adjusted earnings per diluted share to be between $0.03 and $0.04(1). We also expect the acquisition will be accretive to our non-GAAP earnings per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2007."

Panlab has just been appointed as the official ‘designer and manufacturer’ of the Food & Drink System that will help a leading community of Universities in Europe in the UE granted project “PHENOTYPICAL characterisation of animal models for neuropsychiatric disorders related to COMPULSIVE behaviour” (STREP-SMES project presented under Call FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6; Contract Number: 037669).
This project is particularly relevant for compulsive disorders, including drug abuse and compulsive overeating, for it represents prevalent neuropsychiatric diseases that have a large health and socio-economic impact on the European population.
These disorders are produced by an alteration of the capability to control seeking for reward and are apparently linked by common neurobiological substrates.
In the PHECOMP project, reliable and predictive animal models will be fully characterised and employed to better understand the mechanisms involved in those alterations and to design new therapeutic strategies in neuropsychiatric disorders related to compulsive behaviour.

Panlab S.L. introduces its low-cost video-tracking system specially indicated for laboratories with very precise interests and succinct meaningful reports. It is also a perfect alternative for emergent markets.

With the most competitive price of the market, the SMART JUNIOR software fulfils all the basic functions of a classical video-tracking system. Ready-to-use configurations, Run panel and Data reports are directly targeted to specific standard experiments making easy its use for inexperienced users.

SMART JUNIOR represents the finest solution for completing molecular and cellular studies by standard behavioural analysis. Water-maze, plus-maze and open-field experiments are already available now!

Panlab S.L. following its compromise of constant improvement and reenginering aim, presents a new optimized 5/9 holes box designed for performing attention test based on visual discrimination in mice. This new box is supplied with 9 pellet dispensers in order to give the reward directly into the right stimulus hole when a correct response is fulfilled. This equipement is a variant to the classic 5/9 holes box, thus widening the scope of our line of operant conditioning systems. Contact us for additional information.

The OXYLET line is a complete and optimized line for assessing O2/CO2 metabolism in rodents.

The FOODRINK line allows routinely monitoring animal food and drinking consumption and is easily expandable to the evaluation of spontaneous activity and rearing.

The PHYSIOCAGE Modular System allows the user to combine any of the available modules (O2/CO2 metabolism, food and drinking intake, activity and rearing) in one step, or step-by-step (entirely expandable system). Contact us for additional information.

One same Software platform (METABOLISM) enables multiple combination of modules, O2/CO2 consumption (METAOX), Intake (METAINT) and Activity and Rearing (METAACT).

The LE7106T tail-skin temperature can be an important factor in determining tail-flick latency to noxious radiant heat in rodents. As an additional accessory to the LE7106 Tail-Flick Meter, PANLAB S.L. proposes a simple and rapid non-invasive method for recording the tail-skin temperature during conventional tail-flick testing.

A thermocouple mounted on an adjustable support system is brought in contact with the dorsal surface of the tail close to the area exposed to the radiant heat stimulus. Maximal temperature can be easily read on the thermocouple-associated Digital Thermometer allowing correlation between recorded temperature and tail-flick latencies.

The Panlab spatial place preference box is a new experimental chamber developed with the aim to optimize place preference and aversion studies in small laboratory animals, especially for mice.
The innovation brought by the Panlab box is the possibility to combine a new additional spatial dimension with available visual and tactile cues and then optimize conditioning process by increasing the differentiation between compartments. Special features are also available to minimize initial place preference during pre-test phase and time spent in the corridor.
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The number of rearing can be now evaluated easily and accurately using the Smart Video-Tracking system in combination to an IR Actimeter and one of the Panlab's Input/Output devices.

The frequency and duration of the photo-beam cuts generated by the animal vertical movements are processed by the Smart software and the results are integrated to the data reports, providing a new third dimension for a complete and more precise analysis of the animal motor and locomotor behaviour. Contact us for more details…

Panlab proposes a new polyvalent system for conducting both Fear Conditioning and Startle Reflex experiments. The StartFear system takes advantage of the weight transducer technology to provide an optimal sensitivity for the detection of animal movements (rats and even small mice).

The modular experimental chambers are associated with the complete and versatile FREEZING and STARTLE software packages for protocol configuration, data recording and analysis.

After a few months work, we are proud to release the NEW Panlab Website!!

Meant to become the 'Interaction Platform’ among Panlab community of technicians, scientists, customers, colleagues and partners, it takes now the form of a simple web site with enhanced distribution, structure and quality of contents.

It is for this reason that we would like to apologise for the many ‘Coming Soon’ notices you will find when surfing our web and would like to invite you to redirect your queries, comments and suggestions to the new ‘Customer Service Form’.

In the near future you will find, among other releases, the Spanish version of the site, the useful ‘Solutions for the Researcher’ section completely operative and more scientific wise content such as ‘Commented Results’ and ‘Breaking Protocols’.

We hope our new site fulfils your expectations while we welcome your suggestions. Keep coming by regularly to check out new thrilling content!!