SBIR/STTR Research Award
MONITORING FISH VENTILATORY BEHAVIOR TO ASSESS BEHAVIORALLY AND NEURALLY MEDIATED EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES
Award amount
$245,220Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Biological Monitoring, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- EG91MNJ5VN28
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
NORMAL VENTILATORY MOVEMENTS OF FISH GENERATE BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS WHICH, WHEN PROPERLY AMPLIFIED AND FILTERED MAY BE INTERFACED TO COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE AUTOMATED COLLECTION OF LARGE DATA BASES. WHEN FISH ARE EXPOSED TO ACUTELY AND SUBACUTELY TOXIC CONCENTRATIONS OF MANY CHEMICALS, COMMON VENTILATORY RESPONSES MAY INCLUDE CHANGES IN SIGNAL FREQUENCIES, AMPLITUDES, WAVEFORMS, AND COUGHS. TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION AND BEHAVIORALLY AND NEURALLY MEDIATED EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES ON FISH, THE AUTOMATION OF DATA COLLECTION IS ESSENTIAL. THE PROPOSED EFFORT ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE BY ATTEMPTING TO OVERCOME THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATEDWITH THIS PROBLEM. CHEMICALS WOULD BE CATEGORIZED BY THEIR STRUCTURE AND KNOWN TOXIC MECHANISMS OF ACTION TO DETERMINE THE MANNER IN WHICH EACH CATEGORY EFFETS FISH VENTILATORY BEHAVIOR.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- INVESTIGATING AUTOMATED BIOMONITORING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL TOWARD THE ELIMINATION OF POLLUTANTS THAT ADVERSELY AFFECT AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
- INVESTIGATING AUTOMATED BIOMONITORING AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL TOWARD THE ELIMINATION OF POLLUTANTS THAT ADVERSELY AFFECT AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
- AUTOMATED FISH VENTILATORY MONITORING FOR DISTINGUISHED DIFFERENT POLLUTANTS
- THE LONG-TERM OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP A FISH MONITORING TOOL CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY SCREENING CHEMICALS FOR TOXICITY, PROTECTING PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES AND WASTEWATER RECEIVING SYSTEMS, AND IDENTIFYING THE CAUSATIVE TOXIC AGENT(S).
- MONITORING FISH VENTILATORY BEHAVIOR TO ASSESS BEHAVIORALLY AND NEURALLY MEDIATED EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–1993). Reported award amounts total $676,667. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services