RRSSC, Instech, and TSN Scientific Consult are proud to announce the hands-on laboratory course on the glucose clamp technique in stress-free, conscious, and freely moving mice and rats.
The Glucose Clamp Course is of interest to those who want to master glucose clamping in rats and mice. During the course, you use state-of-the-art microsurgical catheterization and exteriorizing techniques.
The course has been created in cooperation with Dr David Wasserman and the Vanderbilt Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center. This allows us to benefit from their extensive experience using the state-of-the-art clamping technique. For more than 25 years, it has been continuously developed and refined at the Vanderbilt MMPC.
In the meantime, the glucose clamp has become the gold standard for assessing β-cell function, insulin action, and glucose turnover in vivo. Above all, clamping rats and mice requires a lot of specialized equipment. On top of that, one needs microsurgical and experimental skills to obtain reliable and reproducible results. For more information, click here.
Above all, the Glucose Clamp module aims to provide the participants with all the necessary skills to design, execute, and analyze a glucose clamp experiment in conscious, freely moving rats and mice, taking them from optimal surgery to data analysis.
This is the program of the RRSSC’s Glucose Clamp Course
The 2024 Glucose Clamp Course will be from November 9 – 15, 2024.