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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis MS rests on clinical symptoms and examinations supported by appropriate magnetic resonance imaging findings or other laboratory tests such as oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid and evoked potential testing Clinically isolated syndrome CIS is a first neurologic episode lasting at least hours possibly caused by focal ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant According to the CDC in ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and in the US approximately patients died of ischemic heart disease It is well established in clinical practice that recanalization of he infarct related artery IRA using percutaneous coronary intervention PCI enhances myocardial salvage and outcomes in pa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant ParaTechs Corporation aims to provide researchers with advanced technology and methods to simplify procedures for laboratory animal models While actively supporting efforts to `reduce replace and refineandapos animal use ParaTechs provides safe and efficient alternatives for surgical procedures We have already brought to market a nonsurgical embryo transfe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Worldwide a person dies from cancer every seconds Positron emission tomography PET is an effective tool that is critical in diagnosing cancer and monitoring treatment efficacy PET imaging relies on use of short lived radioisotopes Commercial distribution of the most commonly used radio tracer F FDG has resulted in patient population coverage in ...

ABSTRACT Traditional approaches to drug development for Alzheimer s disease are becoming increasingly expensive and in many cases disappointingly unsuccessful Based on preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies we have identified a novel small molecule methyl dimethyl oxo dihydrobenzo c naphthyridine carboxylate UK that significantly decreases A production and pro in ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chikungunya virus CHIKV is an alphavirus classified as a category C priority pathogen that causes fever rash and arthralgia in humans In the past decade CHIKV outbreaks have spread beyond the endemic regions of Africa and Asia first to the islands in the Indian Ocean and most recently to the Americas The World Health Organization has reported that as ...

Abstract The disorders collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease IBD including Crohn s disease CD and ulcerative colitis UC affect up to one and a half million Americans Both result from uncontrolled chronic inflammatory activity in the GI tract Most therapeutic agents act by down regulating inflammation are not curative and suffer from significant side effects Forty to of pat ...