Introducing the IonOptix MyoClamp System

After releasing our Intact Muscle System almost a decade ago, we followed up with a similar system focused on living myocardial slices (known as our Cardiac Slice System). Both systems used identical components including the same force transducer, manual tensioning, and programmable motor. In fact, only the chamber inserts were different with respect to the system’s recording hardware, and those inserts interchange easily. The preparation and mounting of tissues differ significantly, but the system’s chamber can easily accommodate a variety of tissue either mounted via platinum omega clips sutured to tissue ends and stimulated directly, or glued to clips and field stimulated. The system has been used to collect functional data from myocardium, papillary, EHTs, as well as soleus, EDL, and engineered skeletal muscle. We are rebranding the system to emphasize it’s flexibility while also giving it a unique, and hopefully more memorable, name: the IonOptix MyoClamp System. Select the previous link or contact us if you’re interested in learning more about the system’s extensive capabilities.