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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Leptospirosis a zoonotic disease is an important public health problem worldwide It is caused by spirochete bacteria belonging to nine species and more than serovars of the genus Leptospira In the US there is increasing awareness of the importance of leptospirosis as the cause of disease among inner city populations military personnel and individuals ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal seeks to develop a novel vaccine against Lyme disease by targeting Ixodes scapularis proteins critical for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission from the tick to mammalian host Earlier work has identified four tick proteins Salp TRE tHRF and TSLPI that facilitate different steps of spirochete transmission and immunity against these protein ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

AbstractMosquito borne flaviviruses cause disease worldwidewith members such as dengue virusDENVZika virusZIKVand west nile virusWNVinfecting more thanmillion individuals annuallyThe availability of small molecule antivirals that reduce flavivirus infection therefore could have an immediate and substantial impact on public health programs that seek to improve outcomes for populations infected with ...

ABSTRACT Borrelia miyamotoi is a tick transmitted spirochete recently shown to cause infection and disease in the United StatesEurope and AsiaA member of the relapsing fever group of Borreliathis pathogen has been proven to cause most commonly a nonspecificflu like illness with feverfatiguemyalgiaand headacheDisease can be particularly severe and involve the central nervous system in immunocomprom ...

Abstract The Specific Aim of this Phase I STTR proposal is to test the feasibility of treating non alcohol steatohepatitis NASH by increasing mitochondrial metabolism which is the main pathway for lipid catabolism in the liver NASH is a stage of non alcohol fatty liver disease NAFLD that has progressed to a pathological state NASH can lead to cirrhosis leading to liver failure or hepatocel ...

Alzheimer s disease AD is a multifactorial heterogeneous and enormously complex disorder characterized by progressive intellectual deterioration Although remarkable advances have been made in unraveling the biological basis of the disease in the last two decades that immense knowledge has not been translated in to successful therapy With the failure of secretase inhibitors at the clinical tr ...

Errors in the planning and delivery of radiation therapy can result in inferior outcomes for patients The magnitude of this problem is now well appreciated from cooperative group trials and other sources At present however there are few concrete tools to reduce the chance of plan errors passing undetected Current practice uses a variety of error mitigation means such as human inspection of th ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a complex and devastating clinical condition mediated by proinflammatory cytokines that produce neuronal loss, axonal destruction, and demyelination during the secondary injury cascade. There are currently no proven therapies targeting posttraumatic inflammation that have been shown to have clinical value. We have previously shown that central nervous sy ...

MTI-101 is a cyclic beta-hairpin peptide that binds CD44 with high affinity and kills multiple myeloma cell lines in vitro and blocks the growth of myeloma tumors in 2 different murine models. This interaction of MTI-101 with the surface of MM cells causesprogrammed cell necrosis, whereas all approved MM drugs cause apoptosis and so the novel mechanism of MTI-101 or MTI-like compounds makes it esp ...