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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An acute or cumulative overdose of acetaminophen (APAP), following either therapeutic overdose or suicide attempts, can cause severe liver damage with the potential to progress to liver failure. APAP overdose accounts for more than 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and an estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure each year, making APAP ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project relates directly to the PHS 2011-2, Omnibus Solicitation for SBIR/STTR Grant Application page NIDCR 110: Development of instrumentation for early caries detection and comparison studies on specificity andselectivity with respect to current clinical practice. The proposed test is intended to enable dentists to differentiate between cavitated and ...

DESCRIPTION: The goal of the proposed project is to develop a biocompatible ultrafine particle-based vector system for the intranasal delivery of clozapine for the pharmacological therapy of treatment- resistant schizophrenic disorders and their associatedsuicidal behavior. The rationale behind the use of intranasal clozapine is grounded on the observation of clozapine's extensive first- pass ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mental disease, including schizophrenia, depression and autism spectrum disorders, are still poorly understood, although it is clear that they mostly represent cortical disorders. The cortex is the primary site of higher mental functions, and despite extensive research, there is still no unified theory of how the cortex works. This is partl due to the fact that ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ninety percent of all pancreatic cancers are pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDAC diagnosis is difficult, usually occurring in the late stages of disease. Patients with these advanced tumors typically respondpoorly to therapy. Post diagnosis, median survival is 6 months and the five-year survival rate is lt 4%. Five-year survival is lt 1% for those wi ...