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SUMMARYParkinsonandapos s diseasePDis the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimerandapos s diseaseADaffecting more thanmillion people in the United StatesBecause age is the major risk factorthe prevalence of both diseases is steadily increasing as our population agesPD belongs to the group of protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases that are due to the misfolding and ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Needle electromyographyEMGremains the standard approach for assessing neuromuscular diseaseWhile the technique has proven to be clinically valuable over the lastyearsit has important limitationsThese include its not being sensitive to alterations in muscle composition and structureits inability to assess the contractile apparatus of muscleand its subjective nature with an inter rat ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Every year in the United States aboutof theinfants born extremely prematureandltweeks gestational age and andltg birth weightELGAdevelop intraventricular hemorrhageIVHIVH is associated with high risk for cerebral palsy and significant intellectual disabilitycausing lifelong implications for affected children and their families and considerable economic burdenIVH is caused ...

Project SummarySimulation training is unique in its ability for repetitive practice of a wide variety of scenarios and to reflect on performance without jeopardizing a patient s safetySurgical skills simulators have been successful in bridging gaps of the current training modelhoweverthese simulators fall short of offering a complete operative experienceOperative exposure with live patients still ...

ABSTRACT Uveitisthe most common form of intraocular inflammationaccounts forof preventable blindness in the USTreatment options are limited to cortiscosteroids and or immunosuppressantsbut both of these therapies show limited efficacy and are associated with numerous adverse and potentially serious side effectsNew therapeutic targets leading to effective and safe treatments are urgently requiredA ...

Spinal cord injurySCIfrequently produces severelife long bladder and bowel dysfunction that result in urinary and fecal incontinenceas well as sphincter dyssynergia that causes urinary retention and fecal impactionCurrent standard of care for incontinence consists of adult diaperswhile bladder and bowel voiding require multiple times daily catheterization of the bladder and regular digital extract ...

Project Summary While studies support the efficacy of comprehensiveschool wide interventions in reducing bullyingthese types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementationresulting in barriers to providing school based bullying preventionespecially in low income and rural communitiesAdditionallyalthough training bystanders to act asdefenderson behalf of targets ...

SUMMARY Despite significant advances in the surgical and medical management of congenital heart diseasecongenital cardiac anomalies remain a leading cause of death in the newborn periodMost severe forms of congenital heart disease require multiplestaged surgical interventionsA significant source of the heightened morbidity and mortality associated with these operations is the development of cardia ...

AbstractThe focus of this proposal is the development of therapy to protect the lung with an extracellular anti oxidant defense to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCOPDa chronic disorder in which inhaled oxidants from tobacco smokepollution and generated within the lung by activated inflammatory cells perpetuate injury to the lung epithelium and endotheliumThe LEXEO strategy is to use in ...

AbstractThe pathogenesis of Sickle cell diseaseSCDcomprises a complex interplay of factors associated with vascular endothelial activationintense inflammationand increased sickle cell adhesionMicrovascular occlusion in SCD is initiated by adhesion of sickle red blood cellsRBCsto the endotheliumleading to acute painful vasoocclusive crisisVOCand the clinical morbidity in SCDTreatment strategies inc ...