BEHAVIORAL TESTING FACILITY (BTF)

行为测试设施 (BTF)

• 批准号: 7959225
• 负责人: LEGIER V ROJAS
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7959225
• 关键词: Animal Behavior; Behavioral; Biomedical Research; Blood; Collaborations; Communities; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Development; Enrollment; Equipment; Evaluation; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Heart Rate; Information Systems; Institution; Laboratories; Marketing; Mus; Oxygen; Process; Puerto Rican; Puerto Rico; Rattus; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Route; Services; Source; United States National Institutes of Health; Wireless Technology; behavior test; data acquisition; improved; respiratory

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The main goal of the Behavioral Testing Facility (BTF) is to cover a need associated with the development processes of several groups at the Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC). The Behavioral Testing Facility is of fundamental importance for a variety of ongoing and new projects at the UCC. Our projection is to serve as a reference facility, making available the study of animal behavior to laboratories in Puerto Rico as well as the continental US. All services offered by the BTF directly use the equipment located in the physical facility and also use other routes of data acquisition such as remote acquisition by means of wireless equipment. Last year we carried out the facility's marketing of the Puerto Rican scientific community with the purpose of recruiting new users. We are continually promoting and increasing collaborations among UCC-investigators and between UCC-laboratories and other academic institutions in Puerto Rico. These approaches were and have been very successful, as demonstrated by the enrollment of new users, three of them from the UCC and two from the external scientific community. The facility has been improved by including the non-invasive evaluation of vital parameters (Heart-Rate, Blood Oxygen Saturation, Respiratory-Rate, etc.) in mice and rats. The evaluation performed previous to the behavioral testing represented a strong and promising enhancement during behavioral analysis. In the near future, we will dedicate our efforts to restore the acquisition of data across Internet2. This objective will be implemented in collaboration with Network and Information Systems Administration at the UCC.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目及 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 行为测试设施 (BTF) 的主要目标是满足与加勒比中央大学 (UCC) 多个小组的开发流程相关的需求。行为测试设施对于 UCC 的各种正在进行的和新的项目至关重要。我们的计划是作为参考设施，为波多黎各以及美国大陆的实验室提供动物行为研究。 BTF 提供的所有服务都直接使用位于物理设施中的设备，也使用其他数据获取途径，例如通过无线设备进行远程获取。 去年，我们对波多黎各科学界进行了该设施的营销，目的是招募新用户。我们不断促进和加强 UCC 研究人员之间以及 UCC 实验室与波多黎各其他学术机构之间的合作。这些方法过去和现在都非常成功，新用户的注册就证明了这一点，其中三名来自 UCC，两名来自外部科学界。 通过对小鼠和大鼠的生命参数（心率、血氧饱和度、呼吸频率等）进行非侵入性评估，该设施得到了改进。在行为测试之前进行的评估代表了行为分析期间的强大且有希望的增强。在不久的将来，我们将致力于恢复通过Internet2获取数据。这一目标将与 UCC 的网络和信息系统管理局合作实施。