ARCHITECT i2000SR System

申请者的NSERC研究项目研究我们饮食中的营养素和其他成分如何帮助获得和维持健康。为了做到这一点，申请人需要准确地监测血液和身体组织中许多化合物随着饮食变化而发生的微小变化。这需要一台专门的设备。Architect i2000SR系统使申请者能够在来自动物或人类的小样本中测量多种不同的维生素、激素、免疫信号和代谢物。Architect i2000SR系统的技术高度敏感，检测方案灵活。这项技术允许我们定制具体的措施，以回答关于饮食营养素或新型食品成分的不同作用的问题。能够一次进行多项检测是具有成本效益的，并使研究人员能够全面了解干预如何改变生理功能。我们的研究生、研究生和本科生以及我们的技术人员也将使用该仪器。这些学员最终将在学术界、工业界、政府和医疗保健行业从事不同的职业。架构师i2000SR系统将成为核心营养设施的一部分，该设施由艾伯塔大学农业、食品和营养科学系的营养研究小组运营。

The applicants' NSERC research programs study how nutrients and other components in our diet help obtain and maintain health. To do this the applicant's need to accurately monitor small changes in many compounds in blood and body tissues that occur with changes in diet. This requires a specialized piece of equipment. The ARCHITECT i2000SR System enables the applicants to measure many different vitamins, hormones, immune signals and metabolites in a small sample from animals or humans. The technology of the ARCHITECT i2000SR System is highly sensitive and has flexible assay protocols. This technology allows us to customize specific measures to answer different questions about the role of a dietary nutrients or a novel food components. Being able to perform multiple assays at once is cost efficient and enables the researchers to obtain a complete picture of how the intervention alters physiological functions. This instrument will also be used by our graduate, post-graduate and undergraduate student as well as our technicians. These trainees will end up in diverse careers in academia, industry, government and healthcare. The ARCHITECT i2000SR System will become part of a core nutrition facility that is run by the nutrition research group in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta.