Metris BV Details

Metris BV

Company Profile:

Metris BV provides innovative research instruments, software and integrated solutions that bring higher throughput, improved cost effectiveness and more accurate data generation to the pre-clinical research area of drug development by fully automating, standardising and validating the recognition of several behaviors of small laboratory animals, non invasively, and without any human observation. Metris' technologies are used by researchers for a wide variety of applications in the fields of neuroscience/CNS, cardiovascular/metabolic, dermatology and pharmacological and toxicological (safety) screening and profiling.

Key Products:

LABORAS: Fully automated measurement system for the continuous behavioural recognition and position tracking of small rodents in a solitary environment, based on force analysis and pattern recognition techniques.

SonoTrack:  Non invasive measurement system that records, visualises and plays back ultrasound vocalisations of laboratory animals.
Application areas: pain, anxiety, depression, social interaction and animal welfare

• Full spectrum analysis
• Multi channel continuous recording
• No frequency tuning required
• Automatic animal call counting

Research areas: Drug development, phenotyping, safety pharmacology and toxicology

Website:
www.metris.nl