Patchliner by Nanion Technologies GmbH

"The Patchliner is a fully automated medium throughput planar patch clamp device with integrated temperature control. Besides the reliable and easy-to-use instrument, the experienced team at Nanion provide continuous support and technical background to develop the experimental methods and achieve the best quality records. Highly recommendable technology and platform for ion channel recordings and screening."

"Our research focuses on understanding the pathology of ion channel disorders, using in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology to reveal opportunities for developing novel therapies. In particular, our research focuses on ion channel gene mutations that cause epilepsy. Patchliner has been an invaluable tool enabling us to examine ion channels both endogenously and exogenously expressed by a variety of different cell types, including mammalian cell lines as well as primary cells. The system allows us to examine the effects of different mutations and different compounds on the biophysical properties of a variety of ion channels, including sodium, potassium and calcium, to mention a few. Patchliner produces high fidelity, reproducible data which is very comparable to that produced using conventional techniques. It is easy to use and throughput is an attractive bonus. The systems temperature control is a really great feature for temperature sensitive channels. The after sales service from this company is second to none."

"Patchliner is an automated, single pipette, 8 parallel-channel system. It comes with many, easily modifiable, protocols for all ion channels groups. I have used Patchliners for primary, secondary and selectivity screens in voltage and ligand gated ion channel programs. The quality of the recordings is comparable to the manual patching, even for fast ligand gated channels such as alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The technical support from Nanion is excellent. Love it."

"The Patchliner comes with robust and high quality Heka amplifiers. Therefore a previous knowledge of the Heka software is clearly helpful. Nevertheless, for the people that are not familiar with the Heka software, Nanion Patchliner created their own software, with a more friendly user interface, to control the Heka commands. Overall it is easy to use. The Patchliner offers the possibility to measure up to 8 cells simultaneously (some cells are "easier" than other though and the success rate can vary accordingly). The solutions are directly applied by the Patchliner "Syringe Pipettor". The speed of the solution application can be modified and the protocols are very flexible and easy to set up. Results are very reproducible. It allows the recording of all types of ion channels (including mechanosensitive channels!). In addition, the Patchliner support team is incredible to help you anytime you need in a very short notice!"

"Exceptional after sale care from the team at Nanion. Always available for an email or call. Always happy to do traning and help new members of the team learn how to use complex software."