VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new GastroSense™ 750 fluorescence agent for imaging gastric motility and related drug effects in vivo.
Gastric motility, or the rate of nutrient transport through the gastrointestinal tract, is an established measure of overall gastric health, specific gastric disorders, and general physiologic health related to toxicity profiles of systemic drugs. VisEn's new GastroSense 750 fluorescence imaging agent is designed to enable real time quantitative measurements of gastric motility in animal models, thereby enabling rapid and effective assessment of a wide variety of related diseases and drug effects in preclinical research and drug development.
"The new GastroSense™ 750 agent represents another robust biologic imaging addition to VisEn's leading suite of agents and fluorescence tomographic (FMT) systems," said Kirtland Poss, President and CEO of VisEn. "These new fluorescence imaging approaches are providing dramatically improved solutions for measuring key aspects of disease progression and drug response in vivo, and we are looking forward to expanding these areas further with our customers and partners."