Introducing the first installment of Scisense's E-Newsletter

To keep our growing list of customers and and contacts informed we would like to welcome you to the inaugural edition of our E-Newsletter. If you have trouble viewing the newsletter properly, or wish to see more detailed information about our products, please access our updated web site at http://www.scisense.com/. Or, if you plan to be at Experimental Biology '07, come see us at our booth # 1626.

In this Issue

• New Products - Pressure-Volume Studies in Large and Small animals
• Recent Company Expansion
• Alliance with DSI
• Special Offers
• Upcoming Events
• Sammy Scisense

For further info e-mail info@scisense.com

Scisense will introduce two new products at the upcoming Experimental Biology Meeting, representing a significant leap forward in the 30 year history of using pressure-volume loops to evaluate cardiac function. Our state-of-the-art pressure-volume catheters combined with these advances in electronic sensing technology truly bring P-V loop analysis to the forefront of medical research.

• The GX5 Conductance System - a multi-segment large animal Pressure-Volume System able to work with both large and small animals alike; and
• The VSL ( Variable Segment Length) small animal Pressure-Volume System for variable sized animal hearts and isolated heart preparations.

The GX5 is a high tech control/amplifier unit which operates the full range of our line of pressure-volume catheters, ranging from our single segment, ultra-miniature 1.2 French catheter, to our five segment 7 French catheter. Intended primarily for studying PV loops in larger animals, some of the key features include selectable segments for varying size animal hearts, "tunable" electric fields to maximize ventricular volume accuracy, electronic balance and calibration controls. Read more about the Scisense Advantage and the GX5 Conductance System by clicking here.

The VSL Control Unit for rodent pressure-volume studies is used in cardiac dysfunction studies where the size of the ventricular cavity varies over time. Previously, multiple pressure-volume catheters with a variety of electrode ring segment lengths had to be kept ready to ensure that the segment continued to fit optimally within the ventricle. Now, with Scisense's leading edge VSL technology, one Scisense pressure-volume catheter can be purchased with up to four different ring spacings on the same catheter, allowing the right size to be chosen for the application by simply rotating a switch on the VSL control unit.

The VSL Control Unit is also essential for isolated heart studies when perfusion fluids are used that have different conductitivity properties than blood. During the calibration process, separate gain and offset controls on the the VSL unit can be adjusted to maximize the signal and ensure volume changes are accurately measured.

Read more about the Scisense Advantage and our VSL technology by clicking here.