ARCHITECT i2000SR System

申请人的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保持健康。 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饮食变化而发生的微小变化。 这需要一个专门的设备。ARCHITECT i2000SR系统使申请人能够在动物或人类的小样本中测量许多不同的维生素、激素、免疫信号和代谢物。 ARCHITECT i2000SR系统的技术具有高度灵敏度，并具有灵活的检测方案。这项技术使我们能够定制具体的措施，以回答有关膳食营养素或新型食物成分的作用的不同问题。 能够一次进行多项测定具有成本效益，使研究人员能够获得干预如何改变生理功能的完整图片。 该仪器也将被我们的研究生，研究生和本科生以及我们的技术人员使用。 这些学员将最终在学术界，工业界，政府和医疗保健领域从事各种职业。 ARCHITECT i2000 SR系统将成为核心营养设施的一部分，该设施由阿尔伯塔大学农业、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.