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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project brings together a strong interdisciplinary team of investigators to develop powerful image information processing and database tools for the exponentially growing bio-molecular image data, thus enabling a new generation of bio-image informatics. Contemporary microscopic techniques, including immunofluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy, GFP v ...

ABSTRACT Osteoporosis is a major cause of disability and morbidity in our populationAs many asmillion Americans have osteoporosis andmillion more have osteopeniaHoweverbone mineral densityBMDassessment does not occur in many Americans when indicated and measure currently requires a separate referral and separate imaging scan to obtain BMDThe result is that onlyof Americans who are at risk of suffe ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathyCIPNis a debilitating condition that afflictsof cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and limits the dose and duration of treatmentSymptoms range from sensory loss to painful neuropathy and are accompanied by electrophysiological and structural indices of nerve damageThe American Society of Clinical Oncology currently makes no recommendat ...

There is an unmet need to inhibit the key cancer promoting transcription factor MYCboth c MYC and MYCNthat act downstream of many cell receptors and signal transcription pathways to activate genes for cancer cell resistance and tumor growthTo datesmall molecule inhibitors of MYC have remained elusiveIn our Phase I STTRCAwe developed a lead compoundSFwhich displays potent orthogonal inhibitory acti ...

ABSTRACTHarmful algal bloomsHABsare becoming frequent occurrences off the coasts of the United Stateswith specific instances in the coastal waters of the west coastthe Gulf of Mexicoand the Pacific OceanHistoricallyHABs have been associated with fish kills and marine mammal mortalitieshowevertheir effects on human health and economic loss due to HAB contamination of seafood are becoming more preva ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We intend to develop an improved microfluidic device that allows crystallization experiments to be interrogated directly with X-ray radiation without requiring crystals to be removed from the well. This will allow experimenters to assess the outcome of crystallization experiments on the basis of diffraction data rather than arbitrary optical judgments. Identifi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A rapid, noninvasive, and accurate, point-of-care device to diagnose and exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) remains an unmet need, especially for patients with conditions that activate inflammatory and coagulation pathways and therefore predispose to PE. These conditions include surgery, cancer, age >70 years, prolonged hospitalization, hemodialysis, connective ti ...

PUBLIC ABSTRACT This projectin response to announcement HLSdescribes a development program for CARSKNKDCCARa synthetic cyclic peptide that selectively targets diseased pulmonary vascular endothelium and enhances the therapeutic effect of vasodilator therapiesfor the treatment of pulmonary hypertensionPHPH is a disorder of elevated pulmonary vascular resistance characterized by progressive thickeni ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Development of drugs based on the MC2R antagonists will directly benefit children with CAH and Cushing's diseases, and will help us to understand MC2R's role in metabolic pathways. The long term goal of this project is to discover small molecule inhibitors of MC2 receptor and develop drug to treat several metabolic diseases including CAH and Cushing's diseases ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Essential hypertension (EH) has its pathobiologic origins in childhood. Since blood pressure (BP) ranking tracks from late childhood onward, adolescents with elevated BP are at risk for development of EH later in life. The need for development of effective primary prevention programs for EH highlighted the NHLBI is corroborated by recent BP rises in youth. The ...