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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Freezing of Gait (FOG) effects the majority of the approximately one million individuals who have Parkinson's disease nationwide and causes a cessation of movement that patients describe as feeling as if their feet are glued to the ground . FOG most often occurs in the mature stages of Parkinson's disease and results in a loss of balance and severe falls. Thes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NF-?B family of transcription factors plays a central role in the regulation of lymphocyte proliferation, differentiation and survival. Aberrant constitutive activation of NF-?B has been identified in many different aggressive lymphoid malignancies in humans and contributes to lymphomagenesis and chemotherapeutic resistance by driving the expression of NF-? ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), phosphate retention may contribute to progression of renal failure and is a major factor in the development of secondary hyperparathyroidism and vascular calcification. Progression of injury is causally associated with risk of mortality that is estimated 10 to 30 times higher for CKD patients undergoing dialysis th ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR project proposes to develop a novel optical scalpel for ultra-precise ophthalmic laser surgery. Segmentation and removal of epiretinal membranes during vitreoretinal surgery is currently performed mechanically with both blunt and sharp dissection, which causes collateral damage to healthy retinal tissue. Conventional fiber-based surgical laser micropr ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs in organs when circulation is interrupted, causing ischemia, and then ischemic tissue is reperfused. This leads to a series of biologic consequences, resulting in edema and inflammation. IRI is a significant problem in organ transplantation, because IRI is the major cause of primary graft failure and organ dysfunction af ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major cause of morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular surgery is excessive bleeding post- operatively, which is commonly managed by pharmacologically modifying clot degradation (fibrinolysis), through inhibition of plasmin activity (PLact). However, the only FDA approved and most commonly used inhibitor of PLact in cardiovascular surgery, while eff ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal responds to program announcement PA-09-081, which has extended and replaced our Phase I announcement PAS-06-131 Applications of Imaging and Sensor Technologies for Clinical Aging Research. The purpose of the announcement is to improve imaging methods for measuring age-related changes in regulation of complex physiologic systems, including ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Degenerative joint disease accounts for substantial human suffering at tremendous social and economic cost. While prosthetic joint replacement is a well-established procedure, a finite life span makes this treatment unacceptable for younger or active individuals who often require progressively complicated revision surgeries. The goal of this Phase II STTR is to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Polychromatic flow cytometry [FC] is one of the most powerful analytical techniques routinely used in immunology. Flow cytometry plays a critical role in several growing clinical applications: leukemia and lymphoma immunophenotyping for diagnosis and sub-categorization (now using 8-10 colors); in CD4/CD8 measurement in HIV-positive patients; and in HLA typing f ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with some sub-types remaining essentially untreatable, expansion of available drug targets will provide significant new options for the development ofmore effective antineoplastic agents. The major goal of this project is to apply a unique drug discovery strategy to cancer drug development. Th ...