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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Preclinical evaluation of treatment strategies for retinal neurodegenerative diseases is highly dependent on mouse models Classical methods to assess the visual function of animals such as electroretinogram ERG which measures electrical responses in the retina do not address connections between the eye and brain or visual perception by the visual system ...

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 The knockdown of targeted genes by anti sense oligonucleotides ODNS and genetic medicines collectively G MEDS holds promise for a variety of therapies The delivery of effective quantities of ODNS to specific cells however has proved to be challenging We propose here a novel approach to ODN delivery that involves enveloped virus like particles EVLPs ...

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 Crystallization followed by subsequent structure determination is a major step in understanding the structure function relationship of macromolecules Understanding macromolecule structure has become a key part in the development of new pharmaceuticals and is a major area of NIH research Crystallization however is also the rate limiting step despite techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dental caries is the single most common affliction across the globe affecting billion people The current process of identifying dental caries involves examining caries formation by naked eyes or X ray during routine checkups Once identified surgical restorative procedures are used to drill out the decay portion of the tooth an filled with synthetic mate ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantIn this Phase II STTR application Rimedion seeks to commercialize a novel treatment for patients suffering from Fanconi anemia and request funding for a Phase I II clinical trialThe product will utilize a HIVbased lentiviral vector expressin the Fanconi anemia A proteinThe strong scientific support for this approached is strengthened by a successful Phase I STTRThe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase I collaboration between KWJ Engineering KWJ and North Carolina State University NCSU will be development of a unique autonomously powered wearable environmental gas sensor for personal exposure monitoring PEM The approach will be to integrate KWJ ultralow power high performance printed amperometric gas sensor for key atmosp ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs NSAIDs are among the most widely consumed pharmaceuticals but their prolonged use causes gastric injury and damage to the small intestine Previous work has shown that anandamide an endogenous endocannabinoid substance produced in the gastrointestinal GI mucosa plays an important role in epithelial homeostasis and re ...

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 ...