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Location:  Oslo, Norway

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Operational:  2019

Schematic of the three chamber whole room indirect calorimeter (WRIC) laboratory comprising of the 23-hour studies, resting metabolic rate/thermic effect of food (RMR/TEF) and Exercise WRIC’s.

Control room with two Sable Systems Promethion instruments. The valve system shown allows the two instruments to be interchanged among the three WRIC’s. These integrated instruments measure oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor pressure within the WRIC. This eliminates the need for drying the sample gases. Notice the small foot print of the instrumentation.

Standard entry gasketed doors to each of the three WRIC’s containing blood sampling ports. Pass through shown next to the door for the 23-hour studies WRIC. These are low cost and easy to install.

Interior of the 23-hour studies WRIC containing a futon bed, small desk and chair. The 24,034 liter interior volume allows for a comfortable environment for subjects during metabolic and macro-nutrient utilization measurements.

Interior of the 23-hour studies WRIC showing the restroom facilities and pass through.

Pass through for the 23-hour studies WRIC.

Interior of the RMR/TEF WRIC. This comfortable room has an interior volume of  7,426 liters and allows for error free RMR and TEF measurements. The included restroom allows for the measurement of TEF whereby testing durations can last several hours.

Exercise WRIC, with an interior volume of 14,233 liters, is shown with a cycle ergometer and a scanner for determining subject anthropometrics prior to the metabolic test.

Conference/teaching area outside the WRIC laboratory. The window looks into the Exercise studies WRIC. This will allow the WRIC laboratory to be used as a teaching tool for many courses in nutrition and physiology.

Subject having cycling exercise energetics measured within the Exercise WRIC.

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