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NexGen IVC for rats 1800

Code NexGen1800

The lightest, most cost-effective, easiest-to-use animal-friendly IVC system in the LAS industry, now configured for rat housing with 15 cages with 1800 cm2.

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Features

Check NexGen features!

Smooth and easy sliding in, and the same sliding out...less stress and vibration for your animals and less repetitive motion strain on your staff... those are the benefits of NexGen's innovative plastic runner system. So innovative that the NexGen is changing the way animal care staff perform their wellness checks...they just slide their occupied cages out of their stalls 3/4 of the way and assess their animals. No need to fully remove cages from the rack...making animal observation simpler, easier and faster than ever before!

  • Positive locking & indication, one finger operation. CHECK THIS!
  • Easier, simpler and faster health checks
  • Animals experience much less vibration
  • More ergonomic, less strain for animal care staff
  • Polysulfone plastic, autoclavable
  • Reduced weight, improved functionality

Patented system of airflow at the cage level in NexGen: less ammonia and CO2 level


QUIET BLOWERS WITHOUT WIBRATIONS

There's so little you'll hear when using a NexGen that it's easier to describe what you won't: no loud hum, no swirling fan, no air noise as it gets sucked into the blower intake...just quiet. Energy efficient ECM motors along with design expertise applied by Allentown airflow experts ensures you'll barely even notice that the blowers are on!

  • A little as 20 dBA. TURN ON your loudspeakers and compare the difference between EcoFlo and another blower:
  • As little as .15 watts per cage slot
  • WiVarium technology allowing blower control via iPad/Tablet
  • Vantage wireless rack monitoring capable
  • Factory certified HEPA blower assembly, not just the filter!
  • Smart blowers - Automatic filter load compensation/pressure polarity control/monitoring

Excellent functionality and maneuverability

  • Smart-engineered to be stronger while needing less structural support
  • Rivet technology coupled with high-strength, high-grade autoclavable plastic components
  • Streamlined assembly process improves cost and delivery times
  • Up to 25% lighter than other IVCs
  • No loose parts, easy prep for washing and autoclaving
  • Easy assembled caging systems with increased visibility
Specifications
Cages in rack

Rack configurations:
column x row

Rack sides Animal capacity
10 2 x 5 1 30
50 3 x 5 1 45
20 2 x 5 2 60
30 3 x 5 2 90
Components
Standard system components
  • Cage System with Wire Bar Lid and Front Loft or Rear Shelf and Enrichment Loft (both systems with double bottles)
  • Bottles 350 ml or 450 ml
  • External bottle top
  • Cardholder (vertical or horizontal)
  • Feeders (few options to choose, also for guinea pigs and ferrets)
  • Enrichment (made from stainless steel and plastic, few options to choose)
Publications

The effect of two different Individually Ventilated Cage systems on anxiety-related behaviour and welfare in two strains of laboratory mouse.

O. Burman, L. Buccarello, V. Redaelli, L. Cervod. Physiology & Behaviour. 124 (2014.)


Performance evaluation of IVC systems.

H. Brandstetter, M. Scheer, C. Heinekamp, C. Gippner-Steppert, O. Loge, L. Ruprecht, B. Thull, R. Wagner, P. Wilhelm & H.-P. Scheuber.  Laboratory Animals (2005) 39, 40–44


Effects of unpredictable chronic mild stress on anxiety and depression-like behavior in mice.

Mineur YS, Belzung C, Crusio WE. Behavioral Brain Research 175 (2006) 43-50


Faecal corticosterone concentrations indicate that separately housed male mice are not more stressed than group housed males.

Hunt C, Hambly C, Physiol Behav 2006; 87:519-26.


Determination of Air Distribution, Exchange, Velocity, and Leakage in Three Individually Ventilated Rodent caging systems.

Huiping Tu, Louis J. Diberadinis, Neil Lipman. 1997. Contemp. Top. Lab. Anim. Sci. 36, 69-73; 1997


Individually Ventilated Cages: Beneficial for Mice and Men?

Baumanns V.,Schlingmann F., Vonk M., Van Lith A.H. Contemp. Top. Lab Anim. Sci. 41:13-19 2002


Evaluation of microenvironmental Conditions and Noise generation in Three Individually Ventilated Rodent caging Systems and Static Isolator Cages.

Scott Perkins, Neil Lipman. 1996.  Contemp. Top. Lab. Anim. Sci. 35:61-65


Extending the cage interval period for CD-1 mice: Are there welfare implications?

Pilar Browne. 2009.  Ani. Tech. and Wel. August 2009, 39-48


Housing laboratory mice in individually ventilated cages; maternal performance and pup development.

Elin Spangenberg, Anna Wallenbeck, Jan Carlstedt-Duke, Ann-Christine Eklöf, Solveig Tjäder.
Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala Sweden, 2 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ScandLas 2011.

References

Allentown IVCs work. They provide exceptional environments for animals and lab personnel alike, are well built, fairly priced, and are backed by the best customer service in the industry.

Past 20 years of Allentown installations - 12 000 000 housed animals - with at least 6 000 000 pups delivered and weaned.

Check Allentown's installations in over 150 research institutes, biopharmaceutical companies and universities all over the world:

Poland

  • Medical University of Lublin
  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology - Gliwice Branch
  • Medical University of Gdańsk
  • Poznań University of Life Science
  • Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków
  • National Veterinary Research Institute in Puławy
  • University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
  • National Centre for Nuclear Research POLATOM Radioisotope Centre in Otwock

USA

  • Abbott Labs
  • Albany Medical Center
  • Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • Alnylam
  • Amgen
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Biomeasure Incorporated
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Case Western University
  • Cedars Sinai Medical Center
  • Charles River
  • Children's Hospital at Columbus
  • Children's Memorial Hospital
  • Childrens Hospital of Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Newport University
  • City of Hope
  • College of Science and Engineering
  • College of Science and Engineering
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Deaconess Medical Center
  • Department of Veteran Affairs State
  • Exelixis
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Genentech
  • Harvard University
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Loma Linda University
  • Lousianna State University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mayo Foundation
  • McGill University
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Memphis Bioworks Foundation
  • Montreal Neurological Institute
  • Morehouse School of Medicine Institute
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Nathan Kline Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • North Shore Health System
  • Northwestern University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Pfizer
  • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Purdue University
  • Rockefeller University
  • Rowan University
  • Rutgers University
  • San Diego University of Prince Edward Island
  • Scott & White Hospital
  • Scripps Research Institute
  • Shriners Hospital for Children
  • Sigma Aldrich
  • South West Medical Center
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  • St. Lousi University
  • Syracuse Alexion Pharmaceuticals
  • The Salk Institute
  • The Wistar Institute
  • Thomas Jefferson University
  • Trudeau Institute
  • Tulane University
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Connecticut Health Center
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Florida
  • University of Illinois
  • University of Miami
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Nebraska
  • University of New York
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Tennessee
  • University of Texas
  • University of Washington
  • VA Medical Center
  • Venenum Biodesign
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Wake Forest University
  • Washington State University
  • West Virginia University
  • Yale University

Canada

  • Carleton University
  • Dalhousie University
  • MISPRO Biotech Services
  • Montreal University Hospital
  • Royal Ottawa Healthcare Group
  • St Michael's Hospital Toronto
  • St. Boniface Hospital
  • Sunnybrook and Women's Hospital
  • TransBIOtech
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Prince Edward Island
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Western Ontario

Germany

  • MHH Hannover Medical School
  • Schering Pharmaceutical
  • University of Aachen

Great Britain

  • Cardiff University
  • Glaxo Smith Kline
  • Imperial College London
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Royal Free Hospital London
  • Takada Cambridge Limited
  • University College London
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Ulster
  • University of York

France

  • Genople
  • Inserm
  • Institut Pasteur
  • Pierre and Marie Curie University
  • Sanofi-Aventis
  • Universite Versailles Saint Quentin

Holland

  • University Utrecht

Italy

  • Instituto de Medicina
  • Instituto Oncologico Veneto

Romania

  • IBPC Bucuresti

Sweden

  • Linköpings Universitet
  • Skanska

Switzerland

  • Hoffman LaRoche
  • Novartis

Saudi Arabia

  • King Saud University

Japan

  • Hokkaido University
  • Reiken Institute

Singapore

  • National University of Singapore
Models
Product name
NexGen Rat 1800, one-sided, 10 cages
NexGen Rat 1800, one-sided, 15 cages
NexGen Rat 1800, two-sided, 20 cages
NexGen Rat 1800, two-sided, 30 cages