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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Traumatic brain injury TBI is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality especially when complicated by secondary insults such as hypotension Vulnerability of TBI patients to hypotension is well recognized and identifies a key need for new approaches The goal of this proposal is to develop to IND a neuroprotective hyper colloid oxygen therapeutic polynit ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant X ray tricontrast imaging provides three different modes of contrast absorption contrast the mechanism behind how conventional medical X ray imaging equipment images phase contrast which provides up to X more contrast than absorption based contrast for soft tissue and scatter contrast which provides information of features at dimensions smaller than ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are currently no drugs or other therapeutic interventions that can reverse or halt the progression of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD Age is by far the greatest risk factor for AD and it is known from studies in both mice and humans that neuroinflammation is increased with old age and to an even greater extent in AD Therefore a drug that could reduce ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantNeuron cell culture is widely used for studies in basic researchdrug discoveryand toxicity testingTraditional neuron cell culture approaches result in random growth of processes which prevent the study of their unique polarized morphologyOur goal is to provide robustuser friendlyand cost effective culture platforms to manipulate and access neurons and their subcellu ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantThe purpose of this project is to develop an improvedminimally invasive treatment for intracranial aneurysmsIntracranial aneurysms are spherical outpouchings of blood vessels in the head that result from weakness in the vessel wallUnruptured aneurysms are present in approximatelyof the general populationand rupture can be devastating with a high morbidity and mortal ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gene transfer for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is bedeviled by inability to obtain safely and easily sufficient cardiac transgene expression Current methods of gene transfer for heart disease include intramuscular injection into heart muscle or intracoronary delivery approaches that are cumbersome to apply Consequently we have considered the u ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of the proposed Phase II STTR research is to develop an imaging system capable of detecting and identifying biomolecules in cells and tissue sections with sub cellular spatial resolution The system combines an atomic force microscope AFM with mass spectrometry MS analysis and utilizes a unique tip enhanced laser ablation TELA method developed in ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In the andquot Enhancing Confidentiality of Research Files Based on Medicare Dataandquot project Acumen LLC aims to expand the overall capabilities of researchers to use survey linked Medicare claims data Currently the process for obtaining approval from the Centers for Medicare andamp Medicaid Services CMS to access these files entails significant paper ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis RA develop when the immune response targets self antigens leading to inflammation and tissue destruction There is now considerable evidence that recognition of self nucleic acids through toll like receptors TLRs can contribute significantly to sterile inflammation and autoimmunity with the clearest example b ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantAllergic asthma is a multi faceted inflammatory disease in the lungIgE and Thmediated inflammation play a critical role in extrinsic allergic asthmaOur labs have identified naturally processed IgE cytotoxic peptidesnECPon IgE producing cellswhich serve as CTL vaccineThe feasibility of using nECP with helper peptide PADRE as a universal IgE vaccineor vaccineto treat ...