Piezopumps for Microstimulation of Tissue

第2阶段SBIR提案涉及一种新设备， 利用为喷墨书写机开发的技术。 该装置应允许输送非常少量的 细胞附近的液体。 细胞与 通过分泌化学信使，如激素和 神经递质，这将是重要的，无论是理论上 和实际的目的，能够复制这个过程。 这个设备承诺做到这一点。 如果设计 如果成功实施， 已知或怀疑是细胞的化学物质的数量 信使，直接到达细胞表面。 而且， 可能提供药物怀疑干扰细胞 通讯 因此，该设备可能成为 制药行业的重要工具。

This phase 2 SBIR proposal is concerned with a new device which utilizes a technique developed for an ink-jet writing machine. This device should allow the delivery of very small amounts of fluid in the close proximity of a cell. Cells communicate with each other by secreting chemical messengers, such as hormones and neurotransmitters and it would be important, both for theoretical and practical purposes, to be able to replicate this process. This device promises to do precisely that. If the design is successfully implemented it will be possible to deliver minute amounts of chemicals known or suspected to be cellular messengers, directly onto the surface of cells. Also, it will be possible to deliver drugs suspected to interfere with cellular communications. For this reason the device could become an important tool in the pharmaceutical industry.