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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project Summary Abstract Synthetic arteriovenous grafts AVGs can provide life sustaining vascular access for dialysis patients but are subject to multiple modes of failure and complications related to chronic needle cannulation poor graft identification delayed access and bleeding These graft needle cannulation associated complications translate to millions of dollars in health care expense ...

Project Summary Abstract Eradication of bacteria that are located in periodontal pockets is a daunting challenge to dentists and oral care professionals Doxycycline or minocycline with scaling and root planing Sandamp RP have been the mainstays but the field urgently needs further advances in perio bacteria eradication A high precision photochemical implement that could be used simultaneousl ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The studies proposed here address a significant health issue the high incidence of acquired deafness from noise overstimulation that can result from recreational and workplace related activities and from service in the military Through a robust academic pharma partnership between investigators at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute with long standing interests and expertise in ...