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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 Mass spectrometry based proteomics is an emerging technology that has seen possible applications everywhere The technique can potentially use one drop of our blood to reveal onset and progress of diseases Current Randamp D using plasma serum proteome sample sets however is severely limited by the high complexity and dynamic range of protein concentrations ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Invasive candidiasis (IC) is one of the most serious threats to patients in a critical setting. With as many as 60,000 cases per year in the U.S., the total cost associated with IC in the U.S. may be as high as 2-4 billion/year. One of the most critical factors influencing patient outcome is early diagnosis. The goal of this project is a rapi and inexpensive i ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The number of Lyme disease cases in the US has been recently estimated by the CDC at cases year This is major public health concern Currently available diagnostics rely on detection of the antibody response serology to Borrelia burgdorferi the causative agent of Lyme disease However serological tests are not accurate during the early stages of Ly ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Metastasis or dissemination of primary tumor cells is the major cause of mortality in cancer patients Circulating tumor cells CTCs in the bloodstream are key players in the establishment of metastatic tumors Recent studies demonstrated that the number of CTCs present in patient blood directly correlate with cancer progression recurrence and survival rate ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this STTR project is to commercialize the protein multi-blot Western device, which contributes to improving the productivity and accuracy of conventional Western blot analysis. Although Western blotting has been used for more than three decades, this labor-and-cost demanding technique remains a key routine for a majority of life scien ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although some gene mutations can predict response to certain targeted therapies, single-gene testing has limits. Multiple important signaling pathways that may be the causes of human malignancy have continuously been discovered and dissected. Pathway and network diagnostic tests are challenging but are clearly on the way. Through this NIH STTR Phase I study, we ...