DEVELOPMENT OF AN RTC FOR TASTE AND SMELL

莫内尔化学传感中心正在寻求探索性资金来计划 为全面发展国家多功能科研培训服务 味觉和嗅觉的中心。设想中的RTC的许多功能 已经在莫内尔就位了。探索性拨款将是 用于制定计划以加强和整合Monell的各个方面 活动使其能够随时承担起有效的职能 RTC。 在基础和临床研究方面，探索性资金将用于 启动人类嗅觉和生物化学的可行性研究 味觉感受器细胞这将在莫内尔和莫内尔之间建立一个必要的桥梁 化学感受细胞机制和临床研究方面的专业知识 在味觉和嗅觉上。 年，研究性培训的重点将扩大到三个小组 具体：高级科学家/临床医生，大专社区 大学生和高中生。使用多学科 方法，加强针对这些人员的征聘和培训 基团将有巨大的潜力对化学传感做出贡献 研究。 探索性资金将用于开发长期需要的续建项目 提高对艾滋病的认识和理解的医学教育包 化学感官及其失调。这将包括评估 需要开设有关化学物质的继续医学教育课程的程度和性质 意义，原型程序的开发，以及生产和评估 计划的一部分。 人们对更多关于味觉和嗅觉的信息感兴趣 来自普通公众和专业人士。探索性的 资金将用于开发向各种受众提供信息的工具 关于化学感官，它们的障碍，潜在的治疗方法，以及 可供评估的资源。要开发和测试的试点项目 还将印制一本针对老年人的小册子，以便 为其他信息的后续实施提供模型 传播产品。 另一项活动是探索一项 化学感觉障碍的流行病学评价。

The Monell Chemical Senses Center is seeking exploratory funds to plan for full development of a National Multi-Purpose Research and Training Center for taste and smell. Many of the features of an RTC as envisioned by NIH are already in place at Monell. The exploratory grant will be used to develop programs to strengthen and integrate aspects of Monell's activities to enable it to readily assume the functions of an effective RTC. In basic and clinical research, exploratory funds will be used to initiate feasibility studies of the biochemistry of human olfactory and taste receptor cells. This will provide a needed bridge between Monell's expertise in cellular mechanisms of chemoreception and clinical research on taste and smell. The focus of research training will be expanded for three groups in particular: senior-level scientists/clinicians, post-secondary community college students, and high school students. Using a multidisciplinary approach, strengthened recruitment and training directed toward these groups will have significant potential for contributions to chemosensory research. Exploratory funds will be used to develop a long-needed continuing medical education package for improving awareness and understanding of the chemical senses and their disorders. This will include assessment of the extent and nature of the need for a CME course on the chemical senses, development of a prototype program, and production and evaluation of the program. There is widespread interest in more information about taste and smell from both the general public and the professional community. Exploratory funds will be used to develop vehicles to inform a variety of audiences about the chemical senses, their disorders, potential treatment, and resources available for evaluation. A pilot project to develop and test a brochure targeted to the elderly also will be carried out, in order to provide a model for subsequent implementation of other information dissemination products. An additional activity will be to explore the feasibility of an epidemiological evaluation of chemosensory disorders.