Automated Inhalation Toxicology Exposure System and Method

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to: conditioning an inhalent environment; exposing a first organism to the inhalent environment for a first-organism duration of time; and exposing a second organism to the inhalent environment for a second-organism duration of time. In addition to the foregoing, other method embodiments are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-referenced method embodiments; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-referenced method embodiments depending upon the design choices of the system designer. In one embodiment, a system includes but is not limited to: an inhalent manifold; a first independently-controllable exposure unit coupled to said inhalent manifold; a second independently-controllable exposure unit coupled to said inhalent manifold; and an exposure control system operably coupled to either or both said first independently-controllable exposure unit and said second independently-controllable exposure unit.

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II. CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] The present patent application is a continuation application of U.S. patent application No. 10 / 166,228 filed May 29, 2002, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 919,741, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,904,912 B2, entitled Automated Inhalation Toxicology Exposure System, filed Jul. 31, 2001, and naming Chad J. Roy and Justin M. Hartings as inventors, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 267,233, entitled Automated Inhalation Toxicology Exposure System, filed Jan. 21, 2001, and naming Chad J. Roy and Justin M. Hartings as inventors. These patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference.I. STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] This invention was made with government support. The government has certain rights in this invention.III. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0003] The present application relates, in general, to multi-animal inhalation exposure ...

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Benefits of technology

[0012] In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-referenced method embodiments; the circuitry and/or ...

Problems solved by technology

The inventors have discovered that related-art multi-animal inhalent systems do not tend to provide for the conditioning of an inhalent environment prior to exposing the animals to the inhalent environment.

The inventors have discovered that related-art multi-animal inhalent systems do not t...

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