True Tail Temperature Option

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This optional feature allows automatic preheating of the tail. To ensure experiment protocols to be precisely controlled and repeated. This feature allows the user to SET the TAIL temperature at which the test is to be started at up to 75° C. Once that preset temperature is reached the test and the timer starts automatically and after the tail flicks the timer and light stop and the result is displayed. Readout will now show in repeatable sequence the start and end temperatures as well as test time. This unique feature will also store the set temperature unless otherwise changed eliminiating temperature variations from test to test, there is no other unit on this market with these one of a kind features. We recommend that animals be restrained with one of the IITC restrainers.

This unit solves the problem associated with "tail temperature prior to and at the end of testing." See article: KJELL HOLE AND ARNE TJOLSEN: The Tail-Flick Formalin Test in Rodents: Changes in Skin Temperature as a Confounding Factor. Pain 53 (1993) pages. 247-254 Elsevier).

All functions and parameters are entered via the Key-pad

1. Animal number, allows the user to enter a two digit ID number so that the animal can be tracked.
2. Active Intensity, is the intensity of the stimulation light during any given test being done. From 0% to 100% light intensity(brightness).
3. Idle Intensity, This is the intensity of the stimulation light during the ready state. 0% to 100% light intensity (brightness).
4. Cutoff time, length of time from the start of the test until the unit will automatically end the test, from 0(Off) to 99 seconds. This feature prevents the tissue damage.
5. Time of Day, time is entered
6. Date, date is entered
7. Starting temperature (T option only)

Accessories

Required Accessories

Tail Flick Test Analgesia Meter
Model I-33

The tail flick test method is used for measuring pain sensitivity by applying a heat stimulus.

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