MINORITY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING (MIRT)

少数族裔国际研究培训（MIRT）

• 批准号: 6659931
• 负责人: CHARLES L ORTIZ
• 金额: $ 19.94万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2005-07-07
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6659931
• 关键词: Mexico; Pinnipedia; South America; health science profession; international cooperation; marine biology; minority health professional; training

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From Application): This is a competitive renewal from the University of California, Santa Cruz that proposes to continue its long-term objective of actively engaging underrepresented minority students and faculty on behavioral and biomedically relevant research in Argentina (Patagonia coast) and the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico. The research will continue to focus, primarily, on the biology of the several vertebrate species along the Patagonian and Gulf of California coasts. MIRT students will be involved in long term investigations of the effects run off pollutants on the food web of the Gulf of California especially the impact on top predator index species of marine mammals, birds and humans. The health of the food chain and fisheries of the Gulf of California has enormous health and economic consequences for the citizens of Mexico. In Argentina, studies will focus on physiological studies of the Southern elephant and seal which serves as a unexpected model of mammalian obesity, the physiological long term food and water abstinence. Results of these investigations have been shown to have clinical implications in the management of several severe human pathologies in the Americas and the Pacific Rim. These include obesity and diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and early childhood development and pathologies resulting from malnutrition and/or starvation. Since l993, when the UCSC-MIRT was initially funded, the program has trained 57 undergraduate/graduate students, of which 19 have admitted to PH.D programs.

描述（改编自应用程序）：这是来自 加州大学圣克鲁斯分校提议继续长期合作 积极吸引代表性不足的少数族裔学生和教师的目标 阿根廷（巴塔哥尼亚海岸）的行为和生物医学相关研究 以及墨西哥索诺拉州的加利福尼亚湾。该研究将继续 主要关注沿线几种脊椎动物的生物学 巴塔哥尼亚和加利福尼亚湾海岸。 MIRT 学生将参与 污染物流失对食物链影响的长期调查 加利福尼亚湾，尤其是对顶级捕食者指数物种的影响 海洋哺乳动物、鸟类和人类。食物链和渔业的健康 加利福尼亚湾对人类健康和经济产生巨大影响 墨西哥公民。在阿根廷，研究将集中于生理学研究 南象和海豹的模型，这是一个意想不到的模型 哺乳动物的肥胖，是生理性的长期禁食和禁水。 这些研究的结果已被证明具有临床意义 在美洲和美国治疗几种严重的人类疾病 太平洋周边。这些包括肥胖症、糖尿病和心血管疾病， 营养不良和/或导致的儿童早期发育和病理 饥饿。自 1993 年 UCSC-MIRT 最初获得资助以来，该项目 已培养本科生/研究生57人，其中19人考取 博士课程。