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PROJECT SUMMARY Chemical risk assessment has been widely applied in chemical industry as a necessary step to get new commercial chemicals registeredand in governmental agencies as a critical procedure to evaluate the toxicity of chemicals in order to properly regulate them to protect human health and the environmentThe Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act further strengthens the importance of chemical r ...

Exposure to toxic levels of metals causes significant negative chronic health problems in the exposed populationsDuring and after exposuremetals such as manganeseleadnickelmercuryetcare present in biological fluidsA fully integrated wearable device would enable real time monitoring of exposure levelsThis would quickly alert those exposed to toxic concentrations of metals and mitigate the chronic h ...

Alzheimer s diseaseADis an immense national public health burdenIt is theth leading cause of death in the US with overmillion Americans sufferingand costs of over $billion in health care and related expensesThis patient population is expected to almost triple over the nextyearsDespite this urgent needthere are currently no disease modifying agents approvedNeuron loss is the only physiological phen ...

Project Summary The use of technologies for imagingrecording and modulating brain activity is rapidly advancing neuroscienceNotablymicroelectrodes are used to locally record neural activity or to perturb circuit functionFunctional magnetic resonance imagingfMRIis widely used to image large scale patterns of hemodynamic fluctuations accompanying neural activityAlthough these techniques have become ...

Summary Recentlywe found extensive remodeling of the microvasculature of the retinaoccurring in some diabetic patients much earlier than expectedThis provides the potential for novel biomarkers to improve classification of patients for management and cost effective testing of therapiesHoweverthe equipment is too expensive for most clinics and small practicesThese early retinal microvascular change ...

ABSTRACT Acute kidney injuryAKIis a syndrome characterized by rapid loss of the kidneyandapos s excretory functionAKI is the leading cause of nephrology consultation and results inmillion hospital admissions a yearThe socioeconomic impact of AKI is significantresulting in $billion cost to the health care systemDespite the high rate of incidence of AKIno therapy currently existsother than supportiv ...

Project Summary Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosisIPFis a devastatingprogressive disease with no known cure and no treatment that convincingly alters the disease course or significantly improves mortalityThe objective of this proposal is the development of nebulized delivery of the small molecule inhibitor of Wntcatenin signalingBCfor Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisPre clinical studies in rodentsdogsand ...