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This project will develop a computer-assisted consultation system for clinical radiologists in thedetection of lung nodules (cancer) on chest radiographs. An automated screening of digital chestradiographs can be further developed when this system is fully tested in various clinical settings. Thesuccess of this project will inspire revolutionary improvements in other cancer diagnostic proceduresth ...

This project will develop a computer-assisted consultation system for clinical radiologists in theclassification of benign and malignant (cancer) calcifications on mammograms. An automated screeningof digital mammograms can be further developed when this system is fully tested in various clinicalsettings. The success of this project will inspire revolutionary improvements in other cancer diagnosti ...

The long range objective of this proposal is to find mild, highly specific conditions for the targeted addition of polyethylene glycol to specific residues of recombinant proteins. Because proteins which have been modified by polyethylene glycol addition have increased serum persistence and decreased immunogenicity, this objective, if achieved, has the potential to decrease the frequency of paren ...

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THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE TO SCREEN NEW DERIVATIVES OF L-ASCORBIC ACID ADDUCTS CLASSIFIED AS METHYLFURYLBUTYROLACTONES, ALSO REFERRED TO AS NAFOCARE B. WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH A SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY GROUP AT WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, WE HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE PARENT COMPOUND, MFBL, HAS EXTENSIVE IMMUNE POTENTIATING ACTIVITY. OUR PROJECT WILL ANALYZE FIVE NEW DERIVATIVES OF L- ...

AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATION TO HUMAN HYBRIDOMA TECHNOLOGY.THIS PROJECT INVOLVES DETERMINING THE ABILITY OF A NEW CLASS OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS (BRM) KNOWN AS METHYLFURYLBUTYROLACTONES (MFBL) TO AUGMENT THE PRODUCTION OF LYMPHOKINES (IL-2, B-CELL GROWTH FACTOR, AND IMMUNE INTERFERON) AND MONOKINES (IL-1, PROSTAGLANDINS, AND CYTOLYTIC FACTOR). OUR LABORATORY HAS DETERMINED THAT ...

ALTHOUGH INVESTIGATION INTO BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS HAS INCREASED RECENTLY, MOST OF THE EFFORT HAS BEEN TOWARDS POTENTIATING THE HOST'S CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY. DATA ACCUMULATED BY OUR LABORATORIES INDICATE THAT THE METHYLFURYLBUTYROLACTONE (MFBL) CLASS OF COMPOUNDS REPRESENTS NEW SYNTHETIC IMMUNE RESPONSE MODIFIERS CAPABLE OF ACTIVATING SEVERAL COMPONENTS OF IMMUNE RESPONSE WITH NEGLIGIBLE T ...

THE PROVEN CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF CISPLATIN AS WELL AS SEVERAL SECOND GENERATION ANALOGS HAS ESTABLISHED THE ROLE OF METAL COORDINATION COMPOUNDS IN CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY. COMPLEXES OF METALS OTHER THAN PLATINUM HAVE BEEN OFTEN POORLY DESIGNED BECAUSE THEY WERE MODELED AFTER THE ACTIVE PLATINUM COMPLEXES WITHOUT CONSIDERING THEIR DIFFERENT THERMODYNAMIC AND KINETIC PARAMETERS. IN PARTICULAR, PALL ...