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Project Summary Abstract The transfusion of platelets is a major component of the treatment of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and or bone marrow transplantstrauma patientssepsisand battlefield injuriesHoweverdue to a complete reliance upon donors as the only current approved source of plateletsand the strictshort shelf life and storage conditions of donorderived plateletscurrent supplies ...

Polo like kinase PLK is a central player in regulating entry into and progression through mitosis Many studies have validated PLK as an anti tumor drug target and its inhibition is potently anti proliferative to cancer cells However recent data suggests that there are two major disadvantages of the conventional approach to blocking the kinase activity of PLK First both general kinome ...

In this Phase I SBIR program, Tetramer Technologies will develop new, commercially attractive, highly monodisperse polystyrene latex standards in a variety of sizes (i.e. 30 nm to 100 nm) via emulsion polymerization processes that employ a surfactant and that are surfactant-free. Surfactant free emulsions will be stabilized through the use of ionic comonomers in the emulsion polymerization. The fo ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Dermal scarring affects more than million people worldwide annually over million people are injured in motor vehicle accidents over million patients are severely burned and thousands of warriors are wounded in military blasts In severe burns more than of patients develop hypertrophic scar contraction which leads to hypertrophic scar contractures HSc HSc a ...

A Novel Millimeter wave mmw DNP EPR Front end Compatible with Versatile High field NMR Probes Abstract There has been explosive growth in interest in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization DNP with Magic Angle Spinning MAS over the past five years because it has demonstrated S N gains exceeding two orders of magnitude at K compared to conventional MAS NMR and non spinning NMR of biological macro ...

Resurfacing of articular cartilage with cold stored osteochondral allografts is employed clinically for repair of trauma and osteoarthritis induced articular cartilage surface damage Chondrocyte viability of transplanted articular cartilage is accepted as one of the determinants of outcome following osteochondral allograft transplantation We have previously developed an ice free vitrification me ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease affecting approximatelymillion Americans that can become debilitating and severely impact quality of lifeWhile an estimatedof patients suffer moderate to severe disease forms that require systemic therapy with immune suppressants and ultraviolet phototherapythe majorityof patients exhibit milder symptomsFor these patientstopical agen ...

An HXYZ g HR Fast MAS probe for Dramatically Improved Biomolecular Structure Determinations AbstractLiquid state NMR spectroscopy is arguably one of the best tools for structure determination for soluble proteinsThe method provides atomic resolution for modest molecular weight proteins and or their complexesThe method begins to have difficulty when the molecular weight of the system causes slow mo ...

Project Summary This SBIR Phase II project will address the need for column chromatography products that can simplify the purification process for therapeutic biologics and increase purification speedThe rapid pace of biologics developmentdriven in part by growth of emerging markets such as personalized medicinehas increased the demand for affordable and fastsmall batch production runs in multi pr ...

ABSTRACTWhile acute stroke is a leading cause of human death and disability in the United Statesunfortunatelyclinical therapies for stroke are limited and unsatisfactoryThe overwhelming failures of stroke treatments in clinical trials strongly indicate thatto battle this multifaceted brain disordernovel strategies that target multiple cell types and afford different mechanisms of protection are ne ...