Ingestive behavior sustains life, but in some forms can lead to morbidities such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic inflammation. The interplay of an individual’s genotype, behavioral and metabolic phenotype, physical and social environment, and its gastrointestinal microbiome are important influencers of ingestive behavior.
Understanding the factors that initiate ingestion and signal satiety in model animals and humans is facilitated by metabolic and behavioral phenotyping. This provides scientists the comprehensive phenotyping data necessary to understand many of the factors involved in regulating ingestive behavior with the goal being to reduce morbidities.
Important System Considerations
- Food and water intake
- Automated access control to food and water; paired or yoked studies
- Dual food hoppers or water bottles for preference studies
- Activity monitoring in a home cage environment
- Stress free body mass measurement in a home cage environment
- Meal pattern analysis
- Micro-event data acquisition for high-resolution analysis of ingestion and other behaviors
Sable Solutions
FLIC Fly Liquid-Food Interaction Counter
The FLIC system provides a precise and continuous quantification of the number and duration of interactions a fly has with food. It complements conventional methods of analysis, such as the CAFE assay ...
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Promethion High-Definition Room Calorimetry System
The Promethion High-Definition Room Calorimetry System is capable of synchronously recording all measured parameters in a completely traceable manner. Key components of this system include the GA-3m2 triple gas O2, CO2, and ...
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