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PROJECT SUMMARY Opioid drugs are powerful analgesicsbut their side effect profile strongly limits their useIndeedtheir addictive properties have led to an epidemic of abuse in the US that accounts forof the global utilization of prescription opioid analgesics in the USwith a market of over $billion per yearPrevious studies have shown that the endocannabinoid neurotransmitteranandamidecontrols noci ...

Project SummaryThe objective of our proposed research is to develop a water soluble molecule that can reduce the levels of amyloid betaAand Drpand prevent abnormal interactions between Aand Drpin Alzheimers diseaseADaffected neuronsOur previous AD studies foundincreased production and accumulation of Aand increased expression of Drpandan abnormal interaction between Aand Drpin AD neurons that was ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Developing an Automated Yeast Dissection System for Aging ResearchAging is the single greatest risk factor for diseases that are principal causes of mortalityThe objectives of aging research are to discover key genes and pathways related to aging that may eventually contribute to retardation of aging and a delay in the onset of age associated diseasesThe budding yeast Saccharomyces ...

In the USthe number of individuals agedand older will increase byover the next decadeConcurrentlyMedicare costs are expected to double to treat chronic diseases that will plague this increasing number of older adultsOne of the most wide spread chronic diseases that affects older adults is sarcopeniawhich is observed inof adults overyears of age andof adults overyears of ageThis disease is characte ...

Falls are a significant source of early morbidity and mortality in the aging populationyet the neurologicalsensoryand motor changes that lead to increased fall risk often escape early identification and interventionVital signs are commonly used in clinical settings to assess the cardiovascular systemblood pressureheart rateimmune systembody temperatureand the respiratory systemrespiratory rateto e ...

Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimerandapos s diseaseADinclude extracellular deposits of Apeptidesintraneuronal aggregates of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein and neuroinflammationMost proposed AD disease modifying therapies have focused on strategies that reduce brain Aamyloid or tau pathological accumulationHoweversuch approaches have been unsuccessful in late stage AD clinical trials and ma ...

Abstract Systemic sclerosissclerodermaSScis a chronic connective tissue disease in which lung fibrosis is the most frequent cause of deathSSc and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are the two most common disease that falls under the interstitial lung diseasesILDa grouping of devastating diseases in which lung fibrosis leads to progressive shortness of breatha very poor quality of lifeand death within ...

AbstractA major shortfall in clinical care for diabetes is a rapid and accurate screen for progression to diseaseCurrent criteria involve HLA haplotypeand the presence of auto antibodiesAAGenome wide associated studiesGWASrevealed only immune associated genes including HLA as T D predictorsThe ability to differentiate from other diseases was very limitedPre typediabetesp T Dis now being identified ...

Project Summary Abstract Statement of the problemOnly three pharmacotherapeutic treatments for Alcohol Use DisorderAUDare FDA approved and none are widely usedandltof AUD patientsor show a strong effect to reduce riskyor dependence based drinking in the long termandltsee sustained decreased drinking outcomesUnfortunatelyapproximatelyof the population suffers from AUD and overof all medical morbidi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY In this Phase I Small Business Technology TransferSTTRprojecta team of researchers at Cincinnati Childrenandapos s Hospital Medical CenterCCHMCwill work with the engineering team at NeoViewIncto design and build novel body coil and incubator prototypes for aTesla Neonatal Intensive Care UnitNICUMRI systemThese components will play a central role in NeoViewandapos s neonatal MRI pro ...