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Principal Investigators for Small BusinessDiscoveryBioMedIncDBMand Monell Chemical Senses Center Project Summary Abstract Bitter taste in foods and medicines presents a barrier to overcoming global public health challengesfood insecuritypoor nutritional healthand poor compliance with medication useparticularly among children and the elderlySugar and saltthe mainstays to address these challengesfur ...

Project Summary Chronic liver disease is becoming a major public health issue with estimates of up to 40% prevalence of non- alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and 12% with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in the U.S. Liver disease and cirrhosis was the 12th leading cause of mortality in the U.S. in 2014. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are important causes of fatty liver disease or steatosi ...

Traumatic brain injuryTBIis a substantial health care issue affecting both civilian and military populationsAlthough extremes of head injury are recognizablemild to moderate TBImmTBIis more difficult to diagnose leading to a need for the identification of circulating biomarkers of brain injury that may facilitate early identificationUsing a rat model of TBI we identified a novel marker of neuronal ...

ABSTRACT Vaccine adjuvants help stimulate the body to generate an immune response when co injected with an antigenthe compound for which immunity is desiredAlthough the human body is capable of producing antibodies to most injected antigensadjuvants can help boost the body s ability to mount a successful and acquired immune response to the presented targetAdjuvants have been shown to enhance immun ...

TypeDiabetes MellitusT DMis an increasingly prevalent form of diabetes in which the insulin producingcells of the pancreas are destroyed by an autoimmune attackand as a resultno endogenous insulin is producedMost often diagnosed in childrenmillion Americans suffer from T DMandnew cases are diagnosed annually worldwideT DM profoundly impacts patientshealth and quality of life due to the constant ne ...

GeneCapture, Inc. is proposing to develop a rapid in vitro diagnostic prototype using our patented molecular-based CAPTURE (ConfirmActive Pathogens Through Unamplified RNA Expression) assay. Based on the results and experience gained in our Phase I STTR contractHDTRA1-16C-0061: Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Differentiation of Viral vs. Bacterial Infections for Point of Care Applications, we p ...

Noninvasive Seizure Screening in Preclinical Models of Epilepsy There is an urgent need for research into treatment options for epilepsy and other seizure disordersAnimal models are increasingly used to understand disease mechanisms and to screen promising therapeutic approachesAnimal epilepsy model use typically requires expensive and labor intensive experimentationwith invasive EEG measurements ...

In resource limited settings, rapid and accurate diagnosis of infections is critical for managing potential exposures to highly virulent pathogens,whether occurring from an act of bioterrorism or a natural event. This is especially important for hard to detect intracellular bacterial andalphavirus infections, that overlap symptomatically and often treated empirically due to a lack of reliable and ...

PROJECT SUMMARYThe overall goal of this Phase I proposal is to designdevelop and test the feasibility of advanced quantitative magnetic resonance imagingMRIphantoms that mimic the simultaneous presence of fatiron and fibrosisFatiron and fibrosis are three principal histological coexisting features of many important disease statesPhantoms are highly controlled test objects that accurately reflect t ...

Project Summary Abstract Mitochondrial dysfunction causes mitochondrial diseases and is tightly linked to aging and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinsonandapos s and Alzheimerandapos sRecent discoveries support that mitochondrial dysfunction can be overcome to treat age related declineCyteGenandapos s hypothesis is that exercise induces the secretion of bloodborne proteins that act system ...