Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH - company directory
Multi Channel Systems (MCS) was founded in 1996 and is located in Reutlingen,
Germany. The company has evolved as one of the market-leaders of sophisticated
products and high-speed data acquisition in the in vitro and in vivo field
of "Neuro-Electronics".
The key clients are customers in the academic field and in the pharmaceutical
industries.
Based in Germany MCS offers qualified dealership in the EU, the USA, Israel,
Japan, China, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand.
The Roboocyte®:
Secondary functional screening is often hampered by the lack of throughput
capacity. Even advanced electrophysiological methods necessite the need
for highly trained personnel and time-consuming experiments. Thus automated
and robotic systems are in need to compensate for the discrepancy in throughput
between high-throughput-screening (HTS) and subsequent stages in successful
drug screening and development.
The Roboocyte was developed to provide the pharmaceutical industry and
academic researchers an automated system to record ion currents in oocytes
of Xenopus laevis with the two-electrode-voltage-clamp technique (TEVC)
in a 96-well dish. cDNA/mRNA injection in 96 oocytes per well, subsequent
TEVC recording and wash of the cells in between the recording sessions,
and setting up perfusion paradigms, is all accomplished with one single
system.
Multi-Electrode-Arrays:
MCS offers a wide variety of Multi- Electrode Arrays with different electrode characteristics, electrode spacing and layout configurations to satisfy every users need, might it be single-cell or filed potential recordings in cultured cells, organotypic slices, and acute slice preparations.
Amplifiers:
The MEA1060 is a 60 channel in vitro amplifier and compatible with all
different MEA´s. It is a sophisticated SMD-based filter amplifier
and easy to use.
The FA line of filter amplifiers are compatible with the headstages and
intended for in vivo recordings. All amplifiers are connected to the MC_Card,
the high-speed PC-based data acquisition card simply by a SCSI cable.
Stimulators:
The STG- series of stimulators come in a 1,2, 4, or 8 channel version. Current or voltage stimulation pulses can be applied either as a simple square, a sine wave, a ramp, or even as an arbitrary waveform via ASCII upload. Stimulus paradigms can be easily edited via the Windows-based MC_Stimulus software and downloaded via a fast serial port. The key feature of the STG-series is the built-in stimulus-isolation-unit. Thus direct output of the current and voltage values is permitted without the need of additional isolation units.
Our vision
Multi Channel Systems engages in the development of automated multi-channel
measurements in basic research and in pharmaceutical screening. We are
actively seeking product solutions to bridge the gap between the ever
expanding number of compound hits obtained by high-throughput-screening
and the lack of fast secondary functional screening methods.
