Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core
Glucose tolerance test, insulin tolerance test and pyruvate tolerance test.
What they do
- Services
- Glucose tolerance test
- Insulin tolerance test
- Pyruvate tolerance test
- In vivo insulin signaling
- In vivo fatty acid uptake assay
- Body composition measurements
- Treadmill exercise
- Cold tolerance test
- Retro-orbital injection
- Grip strength testing
- In vivo triglyceride production
- Manual measurement
- Stable isotope infusions
- Arterial or jugular catheterization
- Arterial and jugular catheterization
- Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp
- Hyperglycemic clamp
- Clinical Chemistry Analysis
- Quantitative Enzymatic-Colorimetric Assays
- Oral gavage
- Tissue harvest
- IDEXX chemistry analyzer services
- Treatment administration
- Indirect calorimetry
- Glucose clamp
- Fasting plasma insulin
- In vivo fatty acid uptake
- Bomb calorimetry
- CLAMS system
- Promethion System
- Stable Isotope Gas Analyzer
- DSI telemetry monitoring
- Core temperature measurements
- BAT temperature measurements
- FLIR Thermal Imaging
- Blood pressure measurements
- Promethion cage system
- Metabolic treadmills
- EchoMRI
- DEXA PIXImus
- Temperature housing
- Surgical development
The mission of the Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core is to provide the necessary resources and expertise to allow investigators to perform state-of-the-art studies of metabolism in rodent models. Source (opens in a new tab)
- Website
- https://www.upenn.edu/
- Headquarters
- US