Company News
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12/2010
| Catamount Research and Development’s Gastrointestinal Motility Monitor System Featured on JOVE |
| Dr. Gary Mawe's laboratory at the University of Vermont recently published a video article in the Journal of Visualized Experimentation (JOVE). Dr. Mawe and his team are using the Gastrointestinal Motility Monitor to acquire spatiotemporal maps of GI motility in order to understand the neurochemistry underlying normal bowel function as well as dysfunction. |
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10/2010
| Catamount Research and Development Publishes Manuscript on Diurnal Patterns of Voiding Behavior in Rats | |
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Dr. Gerald Herrera, President of Catamount Research and Development Inc., recently had a manuscript published in the journal PLoSone. This paper, titled Diurnal Variation in Urodynamics of Rat (Herrera GM, Meredith AL, 2010 Diurnal Variation in Urodynamics of Rat. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12298. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012298) was conducted at our lab at Catamount Research and Development in a collaboration with Dr. Andrea Meredith at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Catamount’s Small Animal Cystometry System was used in conducting these experiments, which concluded that day-night differences in micturition frequency result from a daily difference in bladder capacity, independent of kidney function. |
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1/2010
RELAUNCH OF LSI WEBSITE!
Catamount Research and Development announces the relaunch of our Living Systems Instrumentation division website. We have added features and made it easier to find information about all of our products on the new site. We’ve updated our Citations page with new publications, and much more. Check it out and let us know what you think! www.livingsys.com
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11/2009
| Dr. Anatoliy Gashev and colleagues have research highlighted on cover of Microcirculation | |
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A research article titled “Methods for Lymphatic Vessel Culture and Gene Transfection” by Gashev, Davis, Gasheva, Nepiushchikh, Wang, Dougherty, Kelly, Cai, von der Weid, Muthuchamy, Meininger, and Zawieja recently appeared in the journal Microcirculation (16(7): 618-628, 2009). In this article, Dr. Gashev and coworkers used a novel gene transfection approach to introduce an adenoviral GFP reporter into lymphatic endothelial and smooth muscle cells from rat mesentery. In this work, vessel chambers from Living Systems Instrumentation were utilized for long-term organ culture of isolated and pressurized lymphatic vessels. A color photomicrograph showing lymphatic vessels transfected with GFP in the endothelium only, smooth muscle only, and both smooth muscle and endothelium appeared on the cover of the October and November issues of Microcirculation. Living Systems Instrumentation wishes to congratulate Dr. Gashev and the rest of this research team for their noteworthy work. |
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8/2009
- NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT
Heated Cover for Single and Dual Vessel Chambers
Model CH-HC
This cover is designed to fit our CH-1 and CH-2 standard single and dual vessel chambers. It replaces the cover that came with these chambers previously. This new heated cover addresses problems such as evaporative fluid loss and fogging of the cover that can occur during long-term (several hours) vessel perfusion studies, especially using a stagnant bath fluid.Evaporative loss can make accurate drug dosing very difficult. Cover fogging can distort the image of the blood vessel, as light entering the chamber from the microscope condenser is scattered by the fluid condensate gathering on the cover surface.
The CH-HC heated cover installs easily on standard single and dual vessel chambers (CH-1 and CH-2). The temperature of the heated cover can be regulated using our TC-09 series temperature controllers. For stand-alone applications, use a TC-09S to control the temperature of the CH-HC. To regulate the temperature of a self-heated chamber and the heated cover at the same time, use the TC-09D.
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7/2009
| Walker Lab at The University of New Mexico Publishes Cover Article in Microcirculation |
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Dr. B.R. Walker is a Professor in the Vascular Physiology Group at the University of New Mexico. Living Systems Instrumentation vessel chambers were utilized in a recent research article titled “Antioxidant and Vasodilatory Effects of Heme Oxygenase on Mesenteric Vasoreactivity Following Chronic Hypoxia” that was published in the February 2009 issue of the journal, Microcirculation. A figure of isolated blood vessels taken from that article was featured on the cover of the April 2009 and May 2009 issues of this journal. Congratulations to the Walker Lab on a nice article and cover! |
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8/2008
