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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The present application andquot Novel Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorderandquot addresses the critical need for efficacious treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD A key neural signaling cascade activated by a trauma experience is initiated by the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate Activation of the NMDA receptor a glutamate receptor ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pertussis is a serious and potentially life threatening respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis Worldwide million people become ill with pertussis each year and of these patients die Despite high vaccine coverage in the United States there were still over pertussis cases reported in the U S in Rapid diagn ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Solutions for enabling collaboration continue to be a challenge for biomedical informatics service providers. With the recent rise of so-called Science 2.0 web based tools, many solutions have been proposed using Internet technology including wiki's, document management systems, and custom websites. Here we propose utilizing an open platform, Google's OpenSocia ...

DESCRIPTION: Development of an Intelligent Sample Introduction System for Mass Spectrometry There is a pressing need for new technologies that enable rapid measurements without significant compromise to the analytical data. Herein, we propose to develop arobust mass spectrometry (MS) based surface sampling device that enables direct analysis of a variety of materials including biological tissue a ...

Cell-surface oligosaccharides appended to proteins and lipids are key binding epitopes in many critical biological processes, including bacterial infection, cell development and the immune response. Understanding these processes at the molecular level requires access to a wide range of oligosaccharides of known structure to support investigations of enzyme substrate binding and specificity, to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over one million prostate biopsies are performed in the US each year to diagnose approximately 200,000 cases of prostate cancer. The majority of these biopsies are performed needlessly. The overall objective of this project is to develop a secondary prostate cancer diagnostic test that can be performed on men with elevated PSA in order to identify patients in n ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transseptal (TS) access for left heart procedures is an important and rapidly growing space for diagnostics and therapy delivery with an expected total of over 10 million U.S. patients. In the U.S. and/or Europe, TS access procedures are used for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, left atrial appendage (LAA) closure, patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure, and trea ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed SBIR program is to implement and evaluate a low cost retinal camera, the Laser Scanning Digital Camera (LSDC), in a system for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening. Untreated DR has reached epidemic levels in underserved populations worldwide. As the LSDC has already demonstrated its readiness for DR screening in preliminary stud ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our long-term goal is to develop a novel therapeutic strategy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), with focus on relapsed T-cell leukemia. We intend to accomplish this by targeting a unique molecular masterregulator using a new generation of compounds. ALL is the most frequent cancer of the childhood. Although significant progress has been achieved ...

ABSTRACT ST segment myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a serious acute coronary condition that affects 500,000 Americans each year and results in significant U.S. healthcare costs ( 31B/year for acute MI treatment). STEMI mortality directly relates to the extent of the total myocardial injury and even with the gold standard of reperfusion, up to 50% of the total myocardial injury can be related to ...