Inhalation anesthesia with isoflurane is quickly becoming the standard method of general anesthesia for rats and mice used in biomedical research. Gas anesthesia holds many advantages over injectable agents: minimal animal handling, large margin of safety, ease of anesthetic control, low cost of anesthetic agent, no controlled drugs, and quick recovery times. In addition, isoflurane is minimally metabolized by the liver and therefore is less toxic to the animal’s metabolism as compared to injectable anesthetics. This is especially important with frequent anesthesia for immobilization purposes during in vivo imaging.

We offer an array of small animal anesthesia instruments and accessories, meeting your throughput demands and budget.  Our inhalation anesthesia equipment is compatible with all pre-clinical in vivo imaging instrumentation (optical imaging, MRI, PET, SPECT, CT, ultrasound) and can be used simultaneously or stand alone for in vivo imaging, lab animal surgery and routine small animal procedures.  Our easy to use anesthesia equipment is safe and well recognized in the in vivo research community.