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After a breast conserving therapy histology is often performed to check whether the excised tumor specimen is surrounded by a sufficient amount of normal tissue If a positive margin is identified then a second operation will be performed Currently the re operation rate is which raises a need for intraoperative detection of residual cancers The current intraoperative tools for margin ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ebolaviruses and Marburg virus MARV constitute the family Filoviridae andquot filovirusesandquot that cause severe hemorrhagic fever with human case fatalities of The current epidemic in West Africa unprecedented in terms of geographic scope and size highlights the continued need for development of therapeutics Among the five ebolavirus spe ...

ABSTRACT SUMMARY Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex PDC deficiency PDCD is a rare disease of mitochondrial energy failure in which the life of expectancy of affected children is severely truncated Treatment of PDCD remains a serious unmet challenge There has never been a controlled trial of any intervention for PDCD thus there is no proven therapy for affected patients Dichloroacetate DCA ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Fast Track Insulin remains the primary and often the only treatment for type diabetes mellitus T D However it is associated with chronic iatrogenic hyperinsulinemia secondary hyperlipidemia higher incidence and severity of cardiovascular complications and life threatening hypoglycemia events A higher mortality vs due to cardiovascular ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase STTR research is to quantify genotoxicity in basal cell keratinocytes from organotypic cultures Epiderm in response to commonly used chemical agents The proposed product is a Comet Chip assay that measures DNA damage in basal cells derived from a reconstructed human epidermis Technical questions that will be addressed are Ca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Development of novel lung cancer therapeutics targeting the DNA damage response Abstract Lung tissue is constantly exposed to a wide variety of inhaled chemical agents While the majority of these maybe innocuous those that damage DNA have severe consequences Thus the DNA damage response DDR and DNA repair in these tissues is extremely important The vast ...

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 ...