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| Category | Title | Pump Used | Specific Application |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Studies | Pathology Affects Different Organs in Two Mouse Strains Chronically Infectedby a Trypanosoma cruzi Clone: a Model for Genetic Studies of Chagas' Disease | KDS-200 | Deliver sterile saline solution to test mice, to avoid blood contamination of heart and liver samples |
| Animal Studies | Relaxin is a Potent Renal Vasodilator in Conscious Rats | KDS-200 | Administer N-~nitro-L-Arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) intravenously to female rat test subjects |
| Animal Studies | Preferential Increases in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine after Systematic Cocaine Administration are Caused by Unique Characteristics of Dopamine Neurotransmission | KDS-100 | Administer 100nmol of RTI-76, dissolved in 10ul of saline solution, to test electrical effects of cocaine/dopamine on rat brains |
| Animal Studies | A Reproducable Model of Circulatory Arrest and Remote Resuscitation in Rats for NMR Investigation | KDS-210P | Slow infusion of oxygenated arterial blood, to resuscitate study rats |
| Animal Studies | Concurrent Auto-Receptor-Mediated Control of Dopamine Release and Uptake during Neurotransmission: An In Vivo Voltammetric Study | KDS-100 | Administer 100nmol of RTI-76, dissolved in 10ul of saline solution, to test electrical effects dopamine neurotransmission |
| Animal Studies | Circadian Differences in Stress-Induced Pressor Reactivity in Mice | KDS-220 | Administer heparinized saline solution by catheter, to make cardiovascular measurements in test mice |
| Animal Studies | Allergic Lung Responses are Increased in Prostaglandin H Synthase-deficient Mice | KDS-200 | Intravenous infusion of doses of Mch in PBS, for precise timing of a cholinergic agonist |
| Animal Studies | Glucose Stimulates Protein Modification by O-linked GlcNAc in Pancreatic ß cells; Linkage of O-linked GlcNAc to ß Cell Death | KDS, possible KDS-100 | Infuse glucose or glucosamine in lab rats |
| Animal Studies | Dependence of Early Cerebral Reperfusion and Long-Term Outcome on Resuscitation Efficiency After Cardiac Arrest in Rats | KDS, possible KDS-100 | Long-term resuscitation of cardiac arrested rats, by infusion of solution into femoral artery |
| Animal Studies | Facilitory Role of NO in Neural Norepinephrine Release in the Rat Kidney | KDS-100 | Drug infusion in an isolated pump-perfused rat kidney |
| Animal Studies | Functional Properties of Spontaneous EPSCs and non-NMDA Receprots in Rod Amacrine (AII) Cells in the rat Retina | KDS-220P | Ultra-fast application of glutamate to test rat retina receptor cells |
| Animal Studies | Islet Hyperperfusion during prediabetic phase in OLETF rats, a model of type 2 diabetes - Otsuka-Long-Evans-Tokushima fatty rats | KDS-120 | Withdraw reference blood sample from rat, used in diabetes testing |
| Animal Studies | The Survival and Migration Pattern of the Bone Marrow Stromal Cells after Intracerebral Transplantation in Rats | KDS ("Micro-infusion Pump") Possible KDS-310 | Transplant rat brain cells to subject rats on Kopf stereotaxic frame |
| Animal Studies | Circadian blood pressure and heart rate rhythms in mice | KDS-220 | Infuse heparinized saline solution, to maintain blood pressure in test mice (Biology/physiology) |
| Animal Studies | Selective inhibition of 11ß-Hydroxysteriod Dehydrogenase Type 1 Improves Hepatic Insulin Sensitivity in Hyperglycemic Mice Strains | KDS-100 | Administer blood glucose to test mice to maintain blood glucose levels during insulin infusion (Biology / Medicine / Endocrinology) |
| Animal Studies | Role of the ß3-Adrenoceptor in Urine Storage in the Rat: Comparison between the Selective ß3-Adrenoceptor Agonist, CL316, 243, and Various Smooth Muscle Relaxants | KDS-100 (Muromachi) | Provide continuous infusion of saline into a rat bladder, during drug testing of smooth muscle relaxant (Pharmacology / medicine) |
| Animal Studies | Colon Water transport in transgenic mice lacking aquaporin-4 water channels | KDS-100 | Infuse saline solution into rats in vivo, to test colon permeability (Biology/physiology) |
| Animal Studies | Survival in a rat model of lethal hemorrhagic shock is prolonged following resuscitation with a small volume of a solution containing a drag-reducing polymer derived from aloe vera | KDS-100 | Infuse resuscitation fluids into volume-controlled hemorrhaging rats, to test efficiency of new aloe-based drag-reducing polymer |
| Animal Studies | Hippocampal Damage and Exploratory Preferences in Rats: Memory for Objects, Places and Contexts | KDS | Infuse chemical (NMDA) into rat brain hyppocampi (simulate brain damage) prior to testing memory functions |
| Animal Studies | Bioactivity of anti-angiogenic ribozymes targeting Flt-1 and KDR mRNA | KDS | Intraconjunctival injection of test solutions in rats (biology, nucleic acid research) |
| Animal Studies | Rapid Elevation of Plasma Interleukin-6 by Morphine Is Dependent on Autonomic Stimulation of Adrenal Gland | KDS-101 | Microinjecting morphine into rat brains for experimental theraputics of the autonomic system |
| Animal Studies | Coordinated regulation of gastric chloride secretion with both acid and alkali secretion | KDS-260 | Used to perfuse rat stomach lumen for gastric secretion measurements (Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology) |
| Animal Studies | Evaluation of systemic blood NO dynamics by EPR Spectroscopy: HbNO as an endogenous index of NO | KDS-100 | Intravenous drug infusion into rats (Heart and Circulatory Physiology) |
| Animal Studies | Residual Oil Fly Ash Amplifies Allergic Cytokines, Airway Responsiveness, and Inflammation in Mice | KDS-200 | Fluid delivery of Methacholine (MCh) to test rats airway responsiveness to chemical (respiratory medicine, Asthma) |
| Bioreactors | Load Dampening system for vapor phase Bioreactors | KDS-200 | Inject pure phase compounds (aerosol) into bioreactor to test dynamic load response to chemicals (waste management) |
| Cell Biology | Holding Forces of Single Particle Dielectrophoretic Traps | KDS-101 | Provide destabilizing fluid flow for testing stability of electrically produced single-particle traps (Cell Biology applications) |
| Cell Biology | Role of Surface Proteins in the Deposition Kinetics of Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts | KDS-230 | Used to transfer oocyst suspension medium for deposition (adhesion) experiments (water treatment for parasites) |
| Cell Biology | Comparison of Cell Biology and Biomass Specific Activities of Dominant Bacterioplankton Groups on Stratified Waters of the Celtic Sea | KDS, Possible KDS-310 ("Microinjector") | Provide control group for counting bacterial beads in standard stock suspension (marine biology) |
| Cell Biology | Avidity Modulation Activates Adhesion under Flow and Requires Cooperativity among Adhesion Receptors | KDS | Provide flow for flow chamber experimentation on cells (Genomics, Pathobiology) |
| Cell Biology | Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase ? mediates shear stress-dependent activation of JNK in Endothelial cells | KDS | Provide flow through parallel place shear chamber, providing non-pulsating, laminar shear forces on test cells (Molecular cell biology) |
| Cell Biology | Capacitance Cytometry: measuring biological cells one by one | KDS-210 | Used to deliver fluid to a microfluidic device at nonpulsatile rates ranging from 1 µl/hr to 300 µl/hr (Cell Biology/Physics) |
| Cell Biology | Intravascular Metastatic Cancer Cell Homotypic Aggregation at the Sites of Primary Attachment to the Endothelium | KDS-210 | Component of an in vitro parallel plate laminar flow chamber, to study the adhesion of MDA-MB-435 and DU-145 cells to HBMECs (Cancer Research/Medicine) |
| Cell Biology | Inhibition of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Enhances Mitogenic Actions of Insulin in Endothelial Cells | KDS (programmable) | Infuse Endothelial cells derived from mouse lung endothelium into salt solution with controlled physiological shear rates, to test for selective insulin resistance (Biological Chemistry) |
| Cell Biology | Nitric Oxide promotes IntraCell Biology calcium release from mitochondria in striatal neurons | KDS | NO-containing saline was superfused to study the effect of NOS activity on the NMDA-evoked [Ca2+]i increases of Striatal neurons (Neurobiology) |
| Cell Biology | Cited1 is required in Trophoblasts for Placental Development and for Embryo growth and survival | KDS-200 | Used to perfuse a mouse carotid artery with saline solution, prior to addition of a resin mixture, to make an internal vascular cast of the mouse heart (molecular and Cell Biology biology) |
| Cell Biology | Fast Kinetics of Chromatin assembly revealed by single-molecule videomicroscopy and scanning force microscopy | KDS | DNA Molecules were floated in solution, and flowed past a videomicroscope for study of chromatin assembly procedures (biophysics) |
| Chemical | The aqueous geochemistry of the rare earth elements and Yttrium. Part X. Potentiometric determination of stability constants of acetate complexes of La3+, ND3+, Gd3+ and Yb3+ at 25-70 °C and 1 Bar | KDS-210 | Pump supply for both calibration and stability constant measurements of aqueous geochemistry solutions. |
| Chemical Engineering | Heating Chamber designed for Unit - Var A, B or D | KDS-200 | Chamber designed around KDS-200, for heating of laminar jet breakup, to reduce viscosity (i.e. gelatine, agarose). |
| Chemical Engineering | Estimating the Efficiency of Cell Capture and Arrest in Flow Chambers: Study of Neutrophil Binding via E-selectin and ICAM-1 | KDS | Used to simulate a uniform laminar flow field in a flow chamber.(Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering) |
| Chemical Engineering | Particle Deposition onto Solid Surfaces with Micropatterned Charge Heterogeneity: The "Hydrodynamic Bump" Effect | KDS-230 | Used to pump a colloidal suspension into a glass cell, for deposition experiments (Chemical / Environmental Engineering) |
| Chemical Engineering | Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots: (Other Applications): Telerobotic Remote handling of Protein crystals via an internet link | KDS-210P | Computer controlled pump action, used in an adjustable mount, for precision displacement of capillary fluids, remotely |
| Chemical Engineering | The Treatment of Waste-air Containing Mixed Solvent using a Biofilter: 1. Transient Behavior of Biofilter to Treat Waste-air Containing Ethanol | KDS-200 | Used to inject Ethanol into humidified air, to simulate waste-air gasses, testing a biofilter apparatus (Chemical Engineering) |
| Chemical Gardens | Oscillatory growth of Silica Tubes in Chemical Gardens | KDS-200 | Hydrodynamic injection of Aqueous metal salt solution into Sodium Silicate solution, to create silica tubes (Chemistry and Biochemistry) |
| Chemistry | Alternative Test Method for the Emission Measurement of Isocyanates | KDS-100 | Component of vent system, testing for Isocyanate emissions (EPA, Chemistry) |
| Chemical Engineering | Adhesion Kinetics of Viable Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts to Quartz Surfaces | KDS-230 | Pump Oocyst suspension onto capillary tube with quartz cover, to measure adhesion (Chemical Engineering) |
| Chemistry | Analytical Characterization of Electrochemical Biosensor Test Strips for Measurement of Glucose in Low-Volume Interstitial Fluid Samples | KDS-200 | Glucose measurement studies: surrogate sample delivered to test strip through ISF collection needle. (Clinical Chemistry) |
| Drug Delivery | Powder Properties and their influence on dry powder inhaler delivery of an antitubercular drug | KDS-100 | Used to dispense mixed chemicals (continuous phase and disbursed phase) prior to drying as a powder mixture (Pharmacy) |
| Drug Delivery | Use of Relaxin to treat diseases related to vasoconstriction | KDS | Drug infusion (pharmaceutically active relaxin) for treatment of hypertension (?) |
| Electrospinnning | Tailoring Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Using Electrostatic Processing Techniques: A Study of Poly(Glycolic Acid) Electrospinning | KDS, possible KDS-100 | Providing metered dispensing of Polyglycolic acid for electrostatic spinning, producing smaller diameter fibers for tissue engineering scaffolds |
| Electrospinnning | Simultaneous electrospinning of two polymer solutions in a side-by-side approach to produce bi-component fibers | KDS-100 | Control flow rate of two polymer solutions, in a bicomponent electrospinning device |
| Environmental | Evaporation Rates and Vapor Pressures of Individual Aerosol Species Formed in the Atmospheric Oxidation of a- and ß-Pinene | KDS-200 | Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (TDMA) experiment. Syringe pump feeds an atomizer for continuous aerosol output. |
| Gas Chromotograph | Development of New Type LC-Capillary Column using Wide Bore Open-Tubular Capillary Column for GC | KDS-100 | Inject sample quantity into capillary column, for Chromatography instrumentation testing |
| Genetic engineering | Silencing of Midgut Aminopeptidase N of Spodoptera litura by double-stranded RNA Establishes Its Role as Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Receptor | KDS-200 | Injection of special RNA into insects, which leads to pore formation and death. (genetic engineering, possible insecticide technology?) |
| Mass Spec | Interfacing Sequential injection on-line preconcentration using a renewable micro-column incorporated in a 'lab-on-valve'system with direct injection nebulization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry | KDS-101 | Carrier/sample delivery into an ICP (Mass spectrometry) |
| microbiology | Bacterial Adhesion and Transport in Porous Media: Role of the Secondary Energy Minimum | KDS-200 | Bacterial transport experiments (microbiology, chromatography?) |
| microbiology | Identification and glucan-binding properties of a new carbohydrate-binding module family | KDS-200P | Quantitative UV analysis of substrate binding of newly discovered carbohydrate-binding module family (microbiology) |
| microfluidics | Silica tubes in Chemical Gardens: Radius selection and its hydrodynamic origin | KDS-200 | Used to deliver cupric sulfate solution into waterglass (Na2SiO3), for producing crystaline chemical garden |
| microfluidics | Sequence-selective DNA detection using multiple laminar streams: a novel microfluidic analysis method | KDS-230 | Control all injections of solutions into a microchannel for selective DNA sequence analysis |
| microfluidics | Effects of Rectangular microchannel aspect ratio on laminar friction constant | KDS | Accurate testing of micromachined pipette arrays (microfluidics study, micromachined channels |
| microfluidics | A barrier embedded Kenics micromixer | KDS | Micromixing, fluidics |
| microfluidics | Tranport of particle-laden fluids through fixed-valve Micropumps | KDS-200 | provide known flow rate for flow resistance tests on micropumps |
| microfluidics | Laminar drag reaction in microchannels using ultrahydrophobic surfaces | KDS-100 | Drive fluid through experimental microchannel flow cell, to create an ultra-hydrophobic surface (Mechanical/Industrial Engineering) |
| microfluidics | An investigation of Knoevenagel condensation reaction in microreactors using a new Zeolite catalyst | KDS | Used to feed liquid reactants into microchannels cut into porous stainless steel. (Part of microreactor housing) (Chemical Engineering) |
| microfluidics | Catalytic Slurry Hydrogenation of 0-nitroanisole in a Flow Microreactor with in-situ Generation of Hydrogen | KDS | Fluid flow through Micro mixer tubing, experimental process for Hydrogen production |
| Mircrosystem | Microfabricated Cyclical Electrical Field flow Fractionation | KDS | Provide flow through Microfabricated electrical field flow microsystem (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Textile | Textile ink jet performance and Print Quality Fundamentals | KDS-230 | Pump ink supply for ink jet applications testing (textile industry) |
| waste management | Characterization of the changes in polarity of natural organic matter during solid phase extraction: introducing the NOM polarity rapid assessment method (NOM-PRAM) | KDS-100 | Maintain fluid flow through an experimental waste water test setup (Waste Water treatment) |
| Water Treatment | Enhanced removal of natural organic matter via peroxydase-mediated oxidative coupling | KDS | Continuous injection of fulvic acid solutioninto semicontinuous flow reactors (water treatment testing) |
