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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heroin and related opioids are highly addictive drugs known for their analgesic properties Since the number of heroin users in the United States has skyrocketed reaching epidemic levels Abuse of prescription opioid pain relievers oxycodone Oxycotin and hydrocodone Vicodin which are known gateway drugs to heroin has also increased dramatically Beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Fibroproliferative illnesses leading to organ fibrosis and failure are responsible for approximately of deaths in developed countries whether idiopathic triggered by environmental factors infections or genetics organ fibrosis results in significant morbidity and mortality Organ fibrosis is responsible for health care costs exceeding $ billion year ...

ABSTRACT Perinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy HIE affects to infants per every born Mortality from HIE can be up to and approximately of survivors suffer significant long term disability including cerebral palsy epilepsy and developmental disorders Damage during the acute phase of HIE is caused by a deficit in oxygen and glucose in the brain However increasing evide ...

In the United States in an estimated million people suffered from Alzheimer s disease AD with as many as being undiagnosed Alzheimer s Association Three stages of AD are proposed National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer s Association preclinical AD mild cognitive impairment MCI due to AD and dementia due to AD The preclinical stage is proposed to begin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Studies in the pediatric intensive care unit PICU have shown that hypoglycemia hyperglycemia as well as swings in blood glucose levels are strongly associated with higher morbidity and mortality However tight glucose control has not been proven as effective In fact hypoglycemia was found to be a real danger Thus there is a need for more careful study ...

Project Summary Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing public health concern due to the rise of pathogenic bacterial strains with mutations that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs to treat infections Beta lactamases produced by some bacteria provide resistance by degrading beta lactams one of most widely used class of antibiotics Originally restricted to penicillins mutant bet ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of food allergy has been dramatically increasing for the last few decades Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network www foodallergy org estimates that up to million Americans have food allergies Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them Signs and symptoms of food all ...

Project Summary Linking infectious agent diagnostics to clinical decision making at the point of care requires a fast highly sensitive and simple to use method that takes into account the infrastructure and workflow in clinical settings of both developing and developed regions In addition being able to distinguish among multiple potential infectious pathogens in a single test is of great impor ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mass spectrometry has become a method of choice for identifying and characterizing small quantities of proteins in complex mixtures However the ability to perform the identification in a high throughput fashion has depended on the availability of high quality protein sequence databases This means that proteins from organisms with unsequenced or poorly sequen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glioblastoma multiforme GBM the most common and malignant of all gliomas has a median survival time of months Standard of care chemotherapy using temozolomide TMZ is effective initially but the GBM inevitably recurs and these recurrent tumors are resistant to TMZ There are currently no effective treatment options for patients with TMZ resistant ...