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DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The long-term objectives of this proposed project are to develop a "Test Kit" for quantitative assessment of steatorrhea in infants without the need for control of dietary fat intake and quantitative collections of stools for several days as is the case with the current "Gold Standard," viz, the 72-hour fecal fat method. ...

Project Summary Abstract Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS is a chronic and costly digestive condition characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits diarrhea constipation or mixed type IBS is a disorder of brain gut dysregulation including the amplification of normal gut signals at the level of the brain Yet most medical therapies for IBS to date have focused on symptom management and dietar ...

Preterm birthPTBdelivery prior toweeks gestational ageaccounts forof all births and remains the leading cause of neonatal deathThe majority of PTB is preceded by spontaneous preterm laborPTLCurrentlythere is a major unmet need for methods to identify women at risk of PTL and provide an early warning system for potential interventionhome uterine monitoringHUMis one approach that has shown some prom ...

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A multiscale computational tool to simulate the PK of orally administered drugs in the human GI tract Project Summary AbstractMost FDA approved drugs are administered orallydespite the complex process of oral drug absorption that is difficult to analyze experimentallyOral bioavailability is dependent on the interplay between multiple and simultaneous processes that are dependent on both the drug c ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nanosphere, Inc. is utilizing gold nanoparticle probes to develop a novel chip-based DNA detection technology that does not require target amplification. Because of their ultra-high sensitivity, exquisite specificity, low cost and remarkable stability, the gold nanoparticle probes could define a new industry standard for nucleic acid testing. The current propos ...

ABSTRACT Native top down mass spectrometrynTDMSis a multi tiered tandem mass spectrometry technique able to characterize proteoforms and intact protein complexes in their native state and represents a potentially revolutionary technology still in theearly adoptersstage of the technology life cycleBy utilizing gentle sample preparation and analysis methodsnTDMS can provide a direct measure of the e ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Early diagnosis of an infection in neutropenic cancer patients is critical for timely treatment But the diagnosis of an infection in these patients especially at an early stage can be very challenging Therefore there is a great need for sensitive biomarkers that can rapidly predict an infection and provide possible outcomes We have already reported that s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lung cancer causes more deaths in men and women than any other cancer in the United States Late detection of disease and inability to effectively treat this malignancy with chemotherapy are the main reasons for low survival rates There is an urgent medical need to develop new molecularly targeted drugs for treating lung cancer although it has been challengin ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT To datethe standard method to access a mouse tail vein is manual injectionbut its yield rate is poor in generalThis leads to multiple needle insertions associated with tissue damage and painBesidesfailure in tail vein injection leads to data lossand thereby more animals will be required to compensate itFinallythe dose variation induced by unreliable injection increases erro ...