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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alzheimerandapos s disease AD occurs in one out of eight Americans of age and affects of the elderly over Current FDA approved drugs provide short term symptomatic relief of AD There is a pressing need to discover new disease modifying medications AD is multifactorial in origin and progression A drug attenuating several underlying factors is a p ...

Abstract Neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis Parkinson s disease dementia spina bifida diabetes stroke and spinal cord injury SCI can result in loss of voluntary voiding of urine and require intermittent bladder catheterization for voiding Catheter use is associated with increased incidence of health problems predominately repeated urinary tract infections sepsis ureth ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Nucleosomes are the basic building blocks of chromatin and composed of bp DNA wrapped around a core histone octamer Chromatin function is controlled by the dynamic addition removal of histone post translational modifications PTMs Significantly alterations in specific PTMs are associated with changes in gene expression driving the emergence progression of many cancer ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women between the ages of and and responsible for deaths annually If treated early five year survival rates for patients in the U S are between and but drop to once metastatic breast cancer has developed Thus there is a great need to develop more effective treatment strategies fo ...

Despite significance advances in anti retroviral treatments HIV associated neurocognitive disorder HAND remains prevalent and can affect a broad range of everyday activities An effective brief cognitive screen that could be implemented in busy HIV clinics where clinicians have limited time to provide care for patients with complex medical psychiatric and cognitive conditions has the poten ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Among men prostate cancer is the most common non skin cancer and second leading cause of cancer death with over new diagnoses expected in Approximately of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime Current treatment options for prostate cancer however have sub optimal incidences of side effects that have a significant impact on pa ...

ABSTRACT Pancreatic cancer PC is an extremely aggressive malignancy with one of the worst prognoses of all cancers with a median survival of less than one year and an overall year survival of andlt With marked resistance to chemo and radiotherapies surgery is the only curative option In patients with localized disease and no lymph node or extra pancreatic metastases complete surgical ...

Project Summary Abstract Every year approximately severe mistreatments happen in radiation therapy Radiation therapy lawsuits rank in the top third of all medical specialties with an average of $ per claim settled or litigated The current method for detecting treatment errors is by a weekly patient chart check where each treatment record is manually reviewed on a weekly basis Thi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Only of the human genome is translated into proteins whereas roughly is transcribed into RNA Complex higher order structures in these RNAs fundamentally affect critical biological processes As examples RNA structures in the ribosome are the targets of many antibiotics structures in the genomes of RNA viruses like HIV and influenza are essential for ...

Project Summary Abstract The goal of this proposal is to develop a novel high throughput platform for understanding gene regulatory elements in order to identify new drug targets for common diseases The human genome encodes approximately genes Understanding how those genes are regulated and how this correlates to complex cell phenotypes has long been a major focus of our team Follow up p ...