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PROJECT SUMMARY Over 25 million Americans have asthma, which places an economic burden on the U.S. of $81.9 billion. Airway mucus overproduction is a hallmark of asthma, and the quantity and tenacity of mucus are increased during airway exacerbations. Mucolytics degrade mucus, but do not reduce its production. Although corticosteroids and other anti-inflammatory therapies indirectly decrease mucus ...

Methamphetamine use disorder is associated with damage to regions of the brain that control cognitive and psychiatric functionOne third to one half of adults with methamphetamine use disorder experience cognitive impairments and other psychiatric symptoms that significantly impact treatment outcomesincreased relapse and lower treatment retention ratesMounting evidence demonstrates how immune facto ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Every year in the United States aboutof theinfants born extremely prematureandltweeks gestational age and andltg birth weightELGAdevelop intraventricular hemorrhageIVHIVH is associated with high risk for cerebral palsy and significant intellectual disabilitycausing lifelong implications for affected children and their families and considerable economic burdenIVH is caused ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Needle electromyographyEMGremains the standard approach for assessing neuromuscular diseaseWhile the technique has proven to be clinically valuable over the lastyearsit has important limitationsThese include its not being sensitive to alterations in muscle composition and structureits inability to assess the contractile apparatus of muscleand its subjective nature with an inter rat ...

ABSTRACT SUMMARY In previous studies we identified novel non hematopoietic umbilical cord blood stem cellsnhUCBSCsthat could be expanded to high passages and exhibit restorative properties following ischemic brain injury repairWe found that the high passaged cells were equivalentif not even betterthan the low passaged nh UCBSCsThis finding suggests that these cells can serve as a source of highly ...

Project Summary AbstractDevelopment of a Nerve Cuff Electrode from Soft and Elastomeric Conducting Wires STTR Phase I ApplicationPIBrady ClapsaddleTDA ResearchIncBio electronic interfaces are used in a wide array of applications for recording and providing electrical impulses to treat diseaseOne common interface device for the PNS is the cuff electrodeCurrent cuff electrodes have many failure mode ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT In response to PAthis Phase I STTR proposal will aim at developing pharmacotherapies that can act aslife savermedications to counteract the neurotoxic effects of synthetic cannabinoidsSCsTowards this goalwe will synthesize CB R antagonists with fast onsets of action that can be administered in an emergency roomERsituationThe rationale is based on the successful soft agonis ...

AbstractThe pathogenesis of Sickle cell diseaseSCDcomprises a complex interplay of factors associated with vascular endothelial activationintense inflammationand increased sickle cell adhesionMicrovascular occlusion in SCD is initiated by adhesion of sickle red blood cellsRBCsto the endotheliumleading to acute painful vasoocclusive crisisVOCand the clinical morbidity in SCDTreatment strategies inc ...

Project Summary Abstract The advent of the Zika virusZIKVepidemic around the world has and will cause problems for the correct diagnosis of flavivirus infectionsFor many yearsDENV serological diagnosis was relatively straightforwardHoweverafter the recent ZIKV epidemiccross reactive antibodiesAbsgenerated after ZIKV infection will bind to DENV even if the patient has never had DENVThe only FDA app ...

Project Summary This proposal seeks to expand upon breath analysis technology that is being actively studied as the focus of NIH grant #6R42DA049655-02 and leverage this technology for rapid COVID-19 diagnostics. There is a dire need for sensitive and specific diagnostic tests for COVID-19 that can be performed quickly. The differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) breath analysis technology curren ...