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Energy Balance Metabolic Core at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School is a facility designed for the measurement of energy intake, nutritional status, and energy expenditure in experimental mice. CalR Equipment & Technologies Example Experiments

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Thermogenesis: cold temperature challenge Thermogenesis: beta-adrenergic agonist activation of mice housed at thermoneutral temperatures Pharmacologic induction of metabolic rate (T3) Diet-induced obesity Optogenetic stimulation of food intake Chemogenetic stimulation of metabolism Induction of...

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School - The home of CalR Energy Balance Metabolic Core at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School is a facility designed for the measurement of energy intake, nutritional status, and energy expenditure in experimental mice. This facility consists of...

Equipment and Technologies

Our facilities were updated and re-launched as an institutional Energy Balance Metabolic Core in 2019 to continue the tradition of excellence in metabolic research. This included a bomb calorimeter and a thermal imaging camera. In 2020 we obtained a Promethion indirect calorimeter and DSI’s...

Energy Balance Metabolic Core

Energy Balance Metabolic Core at BIDMC, measurement of energy intake, nutritional status, and energy expenditure in experimental mice

CalR

Go to CalR, a web application for indirect calorimetry analysis. The CalR project: There is a critical lack of standardization for indirect calorimetry experiments to measure body composition ( Corrigan et al eLife 2020, Banks et al Nature Metabolism 2025). Currently, the same dataset can produce...