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ABSTRACTSubstance use disordersSUDsincluding opioid use disorderscontinue to be one of the most serious public health issues in the USleading to negative physical and mental health problemsfamily disruptionand premature deathAfrican Americans with drug use histories that are under criminal justice supervision are particularly vulnerable to experiencing the negative consequences associated with SUD ...

Abstract Stress urinary incontinenceSUIcan result from a combinatorial neuromuscular injury to the pudendal nerve and the muscle it innervatesthe external urethral sphincterEUScompounded by the biochemical effects of agingThe mechanisms of SUI development include incomplete pudendal nerve regeneration and EUS sphincter repair from the maternal polytrauma of childbirth as well as biochemical change ...

Hepatic ischemia reperfusion injuryIRIoccurs in many clinical situationssuch as traumahepatic surgerye gliver resection for tumor treatmentliver donation and transplantationshock and vascular diseasesHepatic I R causes severe liver injury and promotes inflammationleading to liver dysfunctionmultiple organ failure and deathIt also compromises long term outcomes after surgery and traumaCurrentlyno e ...

GravesdiseaseGDis the most common cause of hyperthyroidism and is caused by stimulation of the thyroid stimulating hormone receptorTSHRby thyroid receptor stimulating antibodiesTSAbsTreatment of GD involves antithyroid medication therapyradioactive iodineand surgeryAt the presentfew alternative forms of therapy for GD are available or are in developmentThe ability to block TSHR action may also be ...

Increasinglyalterations in N linked glycans have been reported for serum or plasmaor for the most abundant serum glycoproteinimmunoglobulin Gfrom large cohorts of samples representing rheumatoid arthritisdigestive diseasescancer and liver fibrosisIn the case of fibrosistwo tests have identified alterations in Nlinked glycosylation on both total IgG populations and on specific IgG moleculesBoth of ...

Project Summary Galactic Core LLC aims to develop a robust, scalable, and managed service for performing enterprise-grade biomedical data analysis. The service will be based on the popular open-source Galaxy application (​https://galaxyproject.org/​), offering unlimited data storage and compute capabilities with an extremely powerful, flexible, and collaborative environment for analyzing data. ...

AbstractIf there were a simple and accurate means totake the pulseof a toothi efunctionally similar to a pulse oximeter that could be clipped on a tooth rather than the tip of a fingerthe quality and cost of dental care would be significantly improvedThe ability to measure dental pulp blood flow provides the most direct means to determine the viability of a tooth and is a vital piece of informatio ...

Project Summary Abstract The brain is by far the most complex and heterogeneous organ in the human bodyFor yearsthere has been a growing and unmet need to develop multielectrode arrays for neurotransmitter sensing in multiple brain regions simultaneouslyDisparate brain regions such as the nucleus accumbensstriatumprefrontal cortexhippocampusand others have been widely known to have greatly varying ...

Project Summary Age related macular degeneration remains the most common cause of permanent vision loss in the US and many industrialized countriesExtensive attention is paid to developing treatmentsresulting inregistered treatment trials in the USThe large numbers of patients and trials accentuates the need for improved biomarkers for the management of patientsFurtherif outcome measuresincluding ...

PROJECT SUMMARYHereditary cancer risk assessment in low resource community cancer settings is a signi cant unmet clinical needUnfortunatelymost community cancer clinics do not have adequate access to genetics expertise and patients are not systematically assessed for hereditary riskNew cost e ective and practical approaches are needed to assess and identify patients at risk for hereditary cancer c ...