Respiratory Gas Mass Spectrometer

该奖项提供资金升级和更换呼吸气体质谱仪，该质谱仪由弗吉尼亚大学的四名教员使用。该设备将用于小动物（啮齿动物）的实验和测量心血管控制的短期变异性。呼吸控制系统感知二氧化碳水平变化的过程仍然是一个未解决的问题，希望该设备所用于的项目将有助于为脑氢离子浓度的稳态提供合理的解释，从而了解二氧化碳水平如何控制呼吸。

This award supplies the funds to upgrade and replace a respiratory gas, mass spectromter which is used by four faculty members at the University of Virginia. The equipment will be used in experiments on small animals (rodents) and in measurements of short-term variability in cardiocascular control. The process by which changes in carbon dioxide levels are sensed by the repiratory control system remains an unsolved problem It is hoped that the projects for which this equipment is intended will help provide a rational explanation for the homeostasis of brain hydrogen ion concentration and thereby to understand how corbon dioxide levels control breathing.