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PROJECT SUMMARY Migraine is a highly prevalent condition with an extraordinarily negative impact on quality of life and represents a heavy socioeconomic burden to the societyprimarily because of decreased working efficiency and workdays lostManagement of migraine has become increasingly pharmacological during recent yearsWhile several therapeutic options existmost of the prophylactic drugs current ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Traumatic brain injuryTBIrepresents a significant societal and economic impactTo datethere are no FDAapproved pharmacotherapies to prevent or reverse TBIThe standard of care in an emergency setting focuses first on stabilizing the patient and secondly on management of cerebral hemodynamicsThe patient may undergo surgery to remove hematomasrepair skull fracturesand relieve intracran ...

Project Summary AbstractUpwards ofmillion individuals are afflicted by chronic pain in the US alonewithmillion of these individuals suffering from neuropathic painOn a global scalechronic pain affectsbillion individualswithwho endure lower back painFrom a clinical perspectivethe International Association for the Study of Pain approximates thatinpatients present with painand on an annual basisinpat ...

Filovirusesconsisting of two major virus families including the ebolaviruses and marburgvirusesMARV and RAVVcause periodic outbreaks of severe viral hemorrhagic fever with mortality rates as high asSince it is difficult to predict the species that would dominate future outbreaksdevelopment of broadly protective therapeutics to prevent and manage future filovirus outbreaks is of high priorityIn sha ...

Project Summary Multiple sclerosisMSis a neurodegenerative disease in which myelin of the central nervous systemCNSis destroyed by a self reactive immune responseThis demyelination is accompanied by the death of the myelinating cells themselvesthe oligodendrocytesRepeated bouts of demyelination leave the denuded CNS neurons vulnerable to degradation and is the major cause of neuronal dysfunction a ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Asthmacharacterized by airways obstruction with symptoms of wheezingshortness of breathchest tightness and consequently coughremains a significant health problemWhile advances in bronchodilatorcorticosteroid and Thtargeting therapy allow for well controlled asthma in a large population of patientssubjects with severecorticosteroid resistant asthma require frequent hospitalizations ...

PROJECT SUMMARYPersonal sound amplification productsPSAPshave recently become available to the publicPSAPs serve a potentially important role in providing audibility of sounds for adults who have difficulty hearing in some daily living situationsbut may not be candidates for traditionalhigh amplification hearing aidsFewer thanof adults with hearing loss reporting use of hearing aidsciting high cos ...

The proposed research will advance preclinical characterization and validation of a novel drug for asthmaA growing body of research has uncovered functional gamma amino butyric acid type A receptorGABAARsignaling in non neuronal cellsOur research has demonstrated that ligands activating GABAAR subtypes located on airway smooth muscle and immune cells reduce airway hyper responsivenessAHRand inflam ...

ABSTRACT TypeDiabetes MellitusT DMaffectsmillion patients in US withnew patients annuallyLifespan is shortenedyearsdue to kidney and heart diseaseTight glucose control reduces microvascular complications and adverse cardiovascular eventsInsulin therapy is essential for such patientsbut has shortcomingsaonlyinpatients achieve targeted glucose controlHbA c andltbaggressive insulin therapy increases ...

SummaryThis Phase I program will develop TempO Splicea highly multiplexed targeted sequencing assay monitoring RNA Binding ProteinRBPsplicing expression and alternatively splicedASmRNA representatives of coregulated splicing modulesa novel variation of the TempO Seqassay used for high throughput screeningdesigned to address the hypothesis that it is possible to provide a surrogate assay of the who ...