New Promethion Metabolic Measurement System Introduced at FASEB 2010 Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA

Sable Systems International, the only metabolic measurement company providing guaranteed unobstructed access to all study data, announces the new Promethion™ line of high throughput systems for multiple-animal metabolic screening.  The system’s sleek new design and user-friendly interface incorporate innovative patent-pending capabilities for measuring all aspects of energy expenditure and metabolism while optimizing workflow. Promethion debuted at the FASEB 2010 Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA, April 25-28, at booth #130.

The Promethion system measures metabolic rate, respiratory exchange ratio (RER), activity, position, food and water uptake, and controls access to food.  Using a streamlined protocol, Promethion systems can be configured to acquire, store and process a multi-channel data array from one to 128 cages in real time, providing the horsepower needed for translational research such as nutrition, obesity diabetes studies, thermal tolerance, drug efficacy, and suspended animation studies. Combined with Sable Systems’ proven ability to capture and store all unprocessed system data, researchers now have a tool to handle complex studies, analyze and re-analyze, export or audit the original raw data at any point in time. 

“Conventional metabolic screening systems retain only a tiny fraction of the data generated by the system\'s sensors and analyzers, leaving only the processed and extracted data available to the end-user” said John Lighton, PhD, President of Sable Systems. “This black-box effect prevents any traceable means of confirming data integrity or re-analyzing data with new or different assumptions. Promethion meets the demands of researchers for transparent, traceable data, ensuring trustworthiness of results and accountability in the peer review process. Furthermore, the system enables researchers to customize their acquisition and analysis to their application rather than relying on the built-in assumptions of the system. This is particularly valuable for comprehensive inter-institutional projects where data and its analysis must be trusted before it is merged.” Dr. Lighton is author of the definitive reference work on respirometry “Measuring Metabolic Rates: A Manual for Scientists,” Oxford University Press, 2008.