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Project Abstract Acute infectious diarrhea is a worldwide problem especially among infants young children and immune compromised patients Sadly million children die each year not because of the infections causing diarrhea but due to the associated dehydration The pro absorptive Oral Rehydration Solution ORS is the only recommended oral therapy for children with acute diarrhea yet it ...

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 ...

Pyruvate dehydrogenase complexPDCdeficiencyPDCDis a rare disease of mitochondrial energy failure in which the life of expectancy of affected children is severely truncatedTreatment of PDCD remains a seriousunmetchallengeThere has never been a controlled trial of any intervention for PDCDthusthere is no proven therapy for affected patientsDichloroacetateDCArepresents the first targeted therapy for ...

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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Probiotics hold enormous potential for promoting human health and treating disease One major hurdle to many probiotic products is their lack of persistence in the gut Monon Bioventures MBV and their research partners at the Research Institute at Nationwide Childrenandapos s Hospital RINCH are developing a novel enhanced tunable technology called ProNextTM that allows for a ...

Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with some sub-types remaining essentially untreatable, expansion of available drug targets will provide significant new options for the development ofmore effective antineoplastic agents. The major goal of this project is to apply a unique drug discovery strategy to cancer drug development. Th ...

? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NMR is probably the most powerful and widely used analytical technique for structure determination and function elucidation of molecules of all types, but it suffers from low sensitivity, particularly for insoluble biological macromolecules. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) with Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) has recently demonstrated S/N gains exceeding t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this STTR project is to commercialize the protein multi-blot Western device, which contributes to improving the productivity and accuracy of conventional Western blot analysis. Although Western blotting has been used for more than three decades, this labor-and-cost demanding technique remains a key routine for a majority of life scien ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often plagued with socio-emotional deficits that include difficulty identifying emotions in oneself (alexithymia), difficulty recognizing other peoples' emotions (impaired affect recognition), and empathy loss. These highly prevalent deficits, ranging between 39-70% of the moderate to severe TBI population, are ...