SBIR/STTR Research Award
NOVEL BIOELECTRODE FOR NEUROSCIENCE APPLICATIONS
Award amount
$499,994Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- AST PRODUCTS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A NOVEL BIOELECTRODE WILL BE FABRICATED FROM CONDUCTING POLYMERS. UNDER PROPER CONDITIONS, THIS BIOELECTRODE CAN BEELECTROCHEMICALLY REDUCED WITH RESULTING INCORPORATION OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS, SUCH AS ACETYLCHOLINE, -AMINOBUTYRATE, DOPAMINE, OR GLUTAMATE, INTO THE POLYMER MATRIX OF THE BIOELECTRODE. THE NEUROTRANSMITTER CAN REMAIN ENTRAPPED WITHIN THE CONDUCTING POLYMER MATRIX WHEN THE BIOELECTRODE IS KEPT AT A PROPER POTENTIAL. WHEN THE BIOELECTRODE IS KEPT AT A PROPER POTENTIAL. WHEN THE BIOELECTRODE IS STIMULATED BY AN ELECTRIC PULSE, THE ENTRAPPED NEUROTRANSMITTER CAN BE RELEASED FROM THE POLYMER MATRIX. THE NOVEL ELECTRODE DESCRIBED HERE IS THE PROTOTYPE FOR A DEVICE THAT COULD BE USED TO DELIVER SMALL AMOUNTS OF BIOMEDICALLY INTERESTING MATERIALS TO SPECIFIC LOCATIONS AT SPECIFIC TIMES.
Technology keywords
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