Metabolism is a fundamental characteristic of life, including material metabolism and energy metabolism. Animals convert the substances they ingest into energy through respiration, and respiration measurement technology is not only used for studying and measuringThe main technical means for animal energy metabolism, physiological ecology, and nutrient conversion laws are also important tools for pharmacology, ecotoxicology, animal phenotype analysis, aging physiology, exercise physiology, pharmacology, biomedical research, and more.

As the only designated agent and after-sales service center of Sable Systems International in China, Yiketai Ecological Technology Company has been engaged in animal energy metabolism instrument technology services for more than ten years, providing more than 200 sets of animal energy metabolism instrument equipment and corresponding technical services to domestic research institutions, including:

1) Respiratory metabolism measurement system for livestock such as cattle and sheep

2) Poultry respiratory metabolism measurement system

3) Experimental animal (rat, mouse, etc.) respiratory metabolism measurement system

4) Two climbing respiratory metabolism measurement system

5) Aphid and insect respiratory metabolism measurement system

6) Zebrafish and fish respiratory metabolism measurement system, etc

The above measurement systems all use the most advanced indirect calorimetry method, combined with behavioral observation, environmental regulation (such as temperature regulation), temperature and heart rate monitoring, and other technologies. The company also maintains close cooperative relationships with the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (animal physiology, ecology, and energy metabolism), the Institute of Animal Husbandry, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (poultry respiratory metabolism), and the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (aphid respiratory metabolism) through the Ecolab ecological laboratory platform.

Yiketai Ecological Technology Company can provide research and observation technology solutions for a wide range of researchers, respiratory and energy metabolism laboratories, biomedical laboratories, etc. at different prices (simple respiratory and energy metabolism measurements only cost tens of thousands of RMB, while complex multi-channel energy metabolism and behavior observation systems and respiratory metabolism chambers require millions of RMB), with different research needs, different animals (from the smallest aphids or mosquitoes to amphibians, reptiles, birds, small experimental animals, cattle, sheep and other livestock), and different experimental conditions (such as laboratories, field portable, etc.), and design various respiratory chambers, metabolic cages/chambers, etc. for energy metabolism research in livestock and poultry.

Yiketai Ecological Technology Company also provides different animal activity monitoring technology solutions based on research needs, including insect activity monitoring, rat and mouse activity monitoring, etc. While measuring animal energy metabolism, animal activity is monitored to study and analyze the impact of different animal activity intensities on energy metabolism.

Left: Insect activity intensity monitoring unit (used in combination with insect breathing chambers); Middle image: Monitoring unit for activity intensity of mice and rats (can be used in combination with metabolic cages); Right image: FLIC high-throughput fruit fly foraging monitoring device（Ro J, Harvanek ZM, Pletcher SD (2014) FLIC: High-Throughput, Continuous Analysis of Feeding Behaviors inDrosophila. PLoS）

High throughput respiratory metabolism measurement scheme for fruit flies

Climate chambers/cabins of different sizes such as cabinet, desktop, walk-in, and containerized, with intelligent LED light sources that can simulate circadian rhythms, etc