Tow-Int-Tech Metabolic Treadmill for Rodents is an animal treadmill specially developed to measure respiratory metabolism. It is the necessary experimental equipment for researching animal physical endurance, sports injury, running nutrition, medicine, sports physiology, and pathology.
It can also be used with our energy metabolic cage system for rodents or even compatible with TSE Phenomaster, Sable Promethion, and Columbus CLAMS systems.
Product Features
Applicable animals: mice, rats, etc.
Control mode: touch screen setting
Automatic monitoring of exhaustion status
Angle adjustment: Electric adjustment, Angle range ±45°
Monitoring indicators of running platform: movement speed, distance, total time, exhaustion times, falling times, electrical stimulation time, first falling time, etc
Respiratory metabolic function (optional): oxygen consumption, CO2 production, respiratory metabolic rate, etc
Speed adjustable range: 0-99 m/min
Acceleration setting range: 0-100m/s2, setting accuracy: 0.001m/s2
Mode selection: test mode, training mode
Speed control mode: constant speed mode, acceleration mode
There's a grid penalty in the tail, a buzzer
Protection mechanisms: if the animal is exhausted, stop the stimulation of experimental animals
USB PORT: for exporting data in Excel file format
Electrical stimulation intensity: 0-5 mA, adjustable
Motor: high precision servo motor, response speed ≦1 ms, Noise ≦25 db
Size for 5-channel-version: belt length 100 cm, width 50 cm