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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Kinase inhibitors created a new paradigm in chemotherapy and are a major focus of new oncology drug development The Bcr Abl inhibitor imatinib was a breakthrough drug for chronic myelogenous leukemia with overwhelming early results however at least of patients are either intolerant resistant or experience recurrence within years and individual respo ...

Adiabatic reversible logic provides a way to dramatically reduce power dissipation by recovering the energy used to encode information, rather than dissipating the energy to heat, as is done in conventional CMOS. For Phase I we will design test circuits that will evaluate the energy savings in adiabatic reversible logic, as compared to conventional logic. In addition to these smaller circuits, a M ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Development of novel lung cancer therapeutics targeting the DNA damage response Abstract Lung tissue is constantly exposed to a wide variety of inhaled chemical agents While the majority of these maybe innocuous those that damage DNA have severe consequences Thus the DNA damage response DDR and DNA repair in these tissues is extremely important The vast ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Probiotics hold enormous potential for promoting human health and treating disease One major hurdle to many probiotic products is their lack of persistence in the gut Monon Bioventures MBV and their research partners at the Research Institute at Nationwide Childrenandapos s Hospital RINCH are developing a novel enhanced tunable technology called ProNextTM that allows for 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 ...

Space platforms are complex dynamical systems and there are many reasons to model them from ground telescope imagery as well as from space-based sensor platforms. One key motivation is to determine the operational state and configuration of the vehicle. Key questions such as did the solar panels fail to deploy, did the object begin to tumble unexpectedly may be addressed by a sufficiently detaile ...

Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

Major depressive disorder is a debilitating mood disorder that affects ~7% of US adults in their lifetime, costing the U.S. economy more than $200 billion a year. Drugs that increase monoaminergic signaling are the mainstay of depression therapy, but have a delayed onset of action and are only effective in about 50% of affected patients. Aberrant brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling ...

GravesdiseaseGDis the most common cause of hyperthyroidism and is caused by stimulation of the thyroid stimulating hormone receptorTSHRby thyroid receptor stimulating antibodiesTSAbsTreatment of GD involves antithyroid medication therapyradioactive iodineand surgeryAt the presentfew alternative forms of therapy for GD are available or are in developmentThe ability to block TSHR action may also be ...

Abstract Stress urinary incontinenceSUIcan result from a combinatorial neuromuscular injury to the pudendal nerve and the muscle it innervatesthe external urethral sphincterEUScompounded by the biochemical effects of agingThe mechanisms of SUI development include incomplete pudendal nerve regeneration and EUS sphincter repair from the maternal polytrauma of childbirth as well as biochemical change ...