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PRIVACY POLICY IN PANLAB, S.L.U. OFFICIAL SITE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

1. Information about the Processing Responsible of the data contained in the official page of PANLAB, S.L.U. in the social network

According to the established in the Organic Law 15/1999, of Personal Data Protection (LOPD for its Spanish acronym), and the Royal Decree 1720/2007, of 21st December, for which the LOPD development regulation is approved (from now on RDLOPD), PANLAB, S.L.U. wants to put to the users in this social network acknowledgment, the policy regarding the treatment and data protection of those people which willingly access and use PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site.

The user’s access and use of PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site makes it expressly accept this privacy policy, and gives its consent to the treating of their personal data.

2. Under-aged or incapable data

The access and registration to this social network is prohibited to people under fourteen (14) years old. The access to PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site is also prohibited to people under fourteen (14 years old). On its own side, if the user is incapable, PANLAB, S.L.U. warns of the need of the parental custody’s responsible person consent, or its legal representative, to access and use PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site. PANLAB, S.L.U. is expressly released of any responsibility that may derive from its official site use by under-aged and incapable, being their legal representatives the only responsible in each case.

3. Processing Responsible Company Name Identification.

The user has been informed that PANLAB, S.L.U., with registered office at C/ ENERGIA, Nº 112, CORNELLÀ DE LLOBREGAT (BARCELONA)2, holds the condition of Files and Processing Responsible, through which user’s personal data is collected and stored as a consequence of the registration and use of PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site in this social network, in spite of the treatments of which the social network’s legal entity is responsible, where our official site is found.

4. Purposes to which the personal data, information and consent are destined

The personal data willingly provided by the user to PANLAB, S.L.U. through its official site will be included in a data treatment under PANLAB, S.L.U.’s responsibility, with the purpose of offering you information about PANLAB, S.L.U. via e-mail, fax, SMS, MMS, social communities or any other electronic or physical mean, present or future, which make the commercial communications possible, as well as the sending of Newsletters to those users who subscribe to it, to exchange information with PANLAB, S.L.U. and other users and establish communication with third parties.

From the moment on which the user uses the actual official site, it gives its willing, unequivocal, informed and express consent to allow PANLAB, S.L.U. treat its personal data, in order to receive the correct services according to the established in this policy.

The user is free to use PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site in this network, and in case it does not agree with their personal data treatment for the purposes explained, it can stop using it and providing its personal data.

Through PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site, the user can share texts, pictures, videos and other kinds of information and/or contents, which will be held to this policy, as well as to the Rules and Conditions of the Platform. The user will be responsible for respecting the legislation in force, the present policy and the Platform Rules in all contents it may publish.

The user can only publish personal data, pictures, information and other contents on PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site when the ownership is its own, or when it disposes of the third parties’ authorization.

PANLAB, S.L.U. will have the right to delete from this official site –unilaterally and without previous communication or user authorization- any published content by the user, when it transgresses or infringes the legislation in form, the present policy’s established rules and the Platform Rules.

5. Identification of the addressees with respect to those which PANLAB, S.L.U. had planned to transfer or communicate data to

The user is warned that all the information and contents that may be published in PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site in this social network will be able to be known by the rest of the official site and the social network platform’s users. Consequently, all the information and published contents by the user in PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site in this social network will be an object of communication to the rest of users, for the service’s own legal nature.

PANLAB, S.L.U. has only planned the fulfilment of transfer or communication of data that, according to the legislation in form, may be executed by judges, courts, public administrations, and competent administrative authorities. 

6. Other third providing parties 

PANLAB, S.L.U. warns the user that this entity is only responsible and guarantees the confidentiality, security and data treatment according to this policy, regarding the personal data collected from the user through the present official site, having no responsibility regarding the treatment and posterior uses of the personal data that may be executed by the incumbent of the social network, as well as third parties which provide society of information services and may access such data, third parties which want to serve or to exercise its activity, third parties which establish hyperlinks on the social network, and those responsible to whom, throughout the use of hyperlinks, PANLAB, S.L.U. redirects the registered users on this official site. 

7. Data quality

PANLAB, S.L.U. warns the user that, unless there is a constituted legal representation, no user can use the identity of another person and communicate their personal data. According to this, the user must acknowledge in every moment that the data it can supply can only belong to its own identity and they must be adequate, pertinent, actual, exact and true. In any case, the user must respect third parties’ privacy, whether they are registered users to this social network or not, or to PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site.

8. Exercise of the rights of data access, rectification, cancellation and opposition

PANLAB, S.L.U. informs the user of the possibility of exercising its rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition through a written request form addressed to PANLAB, S.L.U., with registered office at C/ ENERGIA, Nº 112, CORNELLÀ DE LLOBREGAT (BARCELONA)2, or to that replacing it and being communicated in the Data Protection General Register. In these effects, the applicant must send PANLAB, S.L.U. the written communication indicating the petition or the right it exercises attached to a copy of its ID card or valid document that identifies its identity, expressly indicating their user name on PANLAB, S.L.U.’s official site on the social network, with the purpose of being unequivocally identified.

9. Other information of interest

PANLAB, S.L.U. can modify and/or replace at any time the present policy that, according to the specific case, will replace, complete and/or modify the actual published which has been here presented. For that, the user will have to periodically access this policy, in order to keep updated.

The user can contact PANLAB, S.L.U. via the internal text service in the social network or via the following contact data:

PANLAB, S.L.U.

Registered Office: 2C/ ENERGIA, Nº 112, CORNELLÀ DE LLOBREGAT (BARCELONA)

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

The user can as well consult the rules and policies published by the legal holder of the social network in order to use it.

The Small Animal Physiological Monitoring System is an instrument integrating multiple physiology parameters on one single small platform. The objective behind this instrument is to provide superior monitoring results, while making surgery and other manipulations on small animals easier.

The platform integrates monitoring of the rectal temperature, electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration, oxygen saturation (SpO2), blood pressure and exhaled CO2 (EtCO2). It also includes a controlled heating surface to maintain the animal’s body temperature at the desired level.

Features & Benefits

• Demands less installation time at the beginning of procedures.
• Reduces the required space and the number of wires around the animal: (i) A single data/power cable connects to a small wireless communication moduleand (ii)All data is transferred to an Android tablet by Bluetooth for display and saving.
• Real-time display provides numeric values as well as waveforms that can be customized by the user: Multiple signals can be displayed on each of the three graphs.
• Available with a stereotaxic adaptor option, which includes ear bars, a tooth bar and either a nose bar or an anesthesia mask: Stereotaxic device is fixed to the platform, but can easily be removed depending upon the application.
• Recorded data can easily be transferred to any computer for analysis: Scripts and utilities provided to convert data in LabChart or CSV format and to display signals in Excel and Matlab

Components Included

• Heated platform (for rats or mice)
• Android tablet with case and stand
• Bluetooth communication module
• Rectal probe
• Electrode gel

 Physiological Parameters

• ECG - Integrated electrodes under the paws & external electrodes
• Respiration - Waveform acquired with a sensor under the animal
• Heart & Breath Rate - Real-time display from the ECG and respiration waveform
• Warming & Temperature - Heated platform and rectal probe for precise control and monitoring
• Blood Pressure (option) - Connection for a pressure catheter
• SpO2 (option) - Pulse oximetry and oxygen saturation with a paw/tail sensor
• Exhaled CO2 (option) - Gas ports for precise CO2 measurements (with an external ventilator)

Advanced Display Interface

• Touchscreen display - Pinch to zoom on waveforms (works with surgical gloves)
• 1 to 5 second waveforms - Select any signal to display
• 1 to 30 minute trends - View temperature, heart & breath rate trends, and numeric values
• Easy data saving - Add notes, save and export data for an easy analysis

Heated Platform

• External ports – Rectal temperature, pressure catheter, ECG electrodes, SpO2 sensor
• ECG electrodes
• Respiration sensor
• Warming zone – 0.1oC resolution
• Single data/power cable – Link to a compact Bluetooth module with 4 analog outputs
• Exhaled CO2 ports

System Information

Heated Platform

• Easy to clean surface
• 10 cm x 21 cm x 2.5 cm (mice)
• 12 cm x 27 cm x 2.5 cm (rats)

Tablet

• 8” Android tablet (10.1” available)
• High resolution touchscreen display
• Capacity of over 400 hours of saved data
• 5-8 hours battery life
• USB cable and charger

Communication Module

• Bluetooth and analog outputs are in a separate enclosure to avoid interferences
• 9 cm x 11 cm x 2.5 cm
• 100-240 V power supply

Bluetooth

15 to 25 meters typical range between the communication module and the display unit Analog Outputs
• 4 configurable outputs
• BNC connectors, ±5V range
• 1 kHz, 16-bit refresh rate

Data Analysis

• .csv conversion tool
• MATLAB® & Excel® import and display scripts
• Compatible with third-party analysis software (LabChart)

How to order 

The body reversal corridor is used for assessing muscle control and movement coordination in rats.

The apparatus consist of a narrow black Perspex corridor with a closed end. The corridor is provided with two supporting paws for ensuring its stability during the test.

The rat is placed in the corridor facing the closed end. The researcher evaluates the time spent by the animal to turn over (body reversal) and reach the opposite opened end of the corridor.

TThe tube dominance test is used for investigating social dominance in mice.

The apparatus consist of a narrow clear Perspex tube with two removable central doors. The tube is provided with two supporting paws for ensuring its stability during the test.

After being habituated to run through the tube individually, two mice are placed in the tube into opposite ends. Once both mice get close to the doors, the doors are opened and the dominant mice will makes the submissive mouse reverse until it get out of the tube. When one animal has all four paws out of the tube, it is declared the loser while the animal remaining inside the tube is the winner, ending the match.

The number of wins is reported as a percentage of total number of matches. Additional information about the social hierarchies can be gained with the measurement of additional parameters such as duration of each match, latency to exit the tube, and more.

The foot misplacement corridor test is used for assessing motor coordination and balance (gait control) in small laboratory animal (rats and mice).

The foot misplacement corridor test is made of a narrow corridor with clear Plexiglas side walls and opened extremities connecting the corridor to two plastic home cages, one for each side. The floor of the corridor consists of removable metal bars. The animal is placed at one extremity of the corridor and is required to walk on the bars as if walking on a horizontal ladder. The use of a ladder allows observing separately the front and hind foot placement in order to accurately count the total number of foot misplacements (misseps).

The bars can be removed to vary the distance/space between the bars and make the test more difficult for the animal. The changes in bar spacing also prevent animals from learning the location of the bars and so minimize the ability of the animals to compensate for impairments through learning. The width of the corridor can be adjusted to the size of the animal to prevent the animal from turning around.

The system can be combined with the use of a video tracking system for video recording and eventually assess a global evaluation of the animal trajectory, displacement and speed during the test.

This test is a qualitative test with a high sensitivity to determine even subtle loss of movement capacity.

 The inclined geotaxis board (slant board) is mainly used to assess motor coordination in rodents when challenged on a sloped surface.

The subjects are placed individually on the sloped platform facing in a downward direction (negative geotaxis). The latency to turn and orient themselves to be facing up the slope is recorded. This can be repeated at varying inclines to assess motor coordination and righting.

Delays in the ability to reorient could be indicative of delays in motor, balance, or vestibular function.

The inclined geotaxis board consists of sloped platforms of varying angles from horizontal to the desktop (0° to 90°).

2020 Virtual FENS Highlights - Enhance your Rota Rod Experiment!

• New Speed Rage (2-90 RPM)
• New Editable Acceleration/Ramp mode
• New Speed Protocol & Rocking Modes
• New Integral Cover for Mice

Rota Rod description

Our Rota Rod provides an easy way to test the effects of drugs,brain damage, or diseases on motor coordination or fatigue resistance in rodents.

The animal is placed on the rotating lane of the Rota Rod and the timer is started. When the animal drops safely into its own lane, the time latency to fall (minutes and seconds) and rotation speed are automatically recorded. A removable upper separator for rat models is included to prevent interference between animals running in adjacent lanes.

The Rota Rod is controlled by an advanced microprocessor which provides precise timing control and ultra-accurate speed regulation. Rotation can be electronically set at a constant speed (2 to 90 rpm). Alternatively, acceleration rate may be selected at a defined time (2 to 5999 sec, 1 sec increments).

Unique in the market, the extended speed range (2 to 90 RPM)combined with the expanded acceleration mode settings, speed protocols and rocking modes, make the experimental reach of the rota rod exceptionally flexible.

The touchscreen graphic user interface allows clear visualization of timing and speed for each lane. Change modes, adjust speed, and create protocols right from the main screen for greater flexibility with maximum functionality and usability. The data can be read on the screen and/or exported to the SEDACOM software for saving the data in table form by lanes/trials.

The new integral cover option helps confine the animals if they fall off of the rod (only available for mice).

Parameters measured

• Animal latency to fall
• Rotation speed when fall occurs