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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support allows the neonate with congenital heart disease or cardiomyopathy to grow to a larger body weight that is more feasible for complex surgical correction or heart transplant.A paracorporeal LVAD, the Berlin heart ExCor, is FDA-approved for pediatric application. Although this device is outside the body, the outflow g ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to complete the engineering development and pre-clinical testing of the SCR SVAD system to provide partial cardiac assist in patients with less advanced stage heart failure (HF). HF isincreasing worldwide and represents a major burden in terms of health care resources and costs. Despite advances in medical care, prognosis with ...

DESCRIPTION: Plants produce a wide variety of valuable bioactive metabolites, but these are commonly present in low concentrations in the wild-type plant. This makes the separation and purification of these compounds complicated and expensive. The applicant company, Naprogenix Inc, has developed a technology for increasing the yields of specific bioactive metabolites in mutant plant cell cultures ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity is recognized as a national and global epidemic, as approximately 65% of adults in the United States are classified as overweight or obese as defined by body mass index (BMI). In fact, in the year 2000, the human race reached a historical landmark, when for the first time in history the number of adults with excess weight surpassed the number of those w ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): According to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) of 2008, 7.2 million Americans are in need of treatment for Substance-Related Disorders (SRDs), and a large proportion of those need treatment for opiate pain reliever, heroin, and alcohol addiction. Naltrexone (NTX), an opioid antagonist, is currently used in oral tablet form to help maintain opio ...

Intramammary infection (a.k.a., mastitis) is the largest attributable cause of lost productivity, discarded milk, chronic morbidity, and prophylactic antibiotic use in the dairy industry. The majority of new infections are associated with the dry period, during which the udders are temporarily engorged with milk that often leaks from the teat ends. Furthermore, the three major agencies of the U.S. ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The laboratory rat is a preferred rodent model in pre clinical drug studies Their larger size facilitates procedures otherwise difficult in mice includng studies using instrumentation blood sampling and surgeries and allows for ten times the amount of tissue collection Although rats are often more suitable than mice for pharmacological toxicological phy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In the absence of effective approved drugs or vaccines vector control remains the only means of intervention for many against mosquito borne diseases This problem grows more complex with the recent establishment of multiple exotic mosquito species and mosquito borne pathogens Furthermore changing climate conditions are predicted to alter the traditional ra ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Genital tract infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae gonorrhea does not induce a state of specific protective immunity and can be acquired repeatedly Despite public health measures the disease persists at an unacceptably high frequency there is no vaccine against it and resistance even to the latest generations of antibiotics continues to emerge Recent fin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative and malignant diseases of the central nervous system affect millions of Americans These diseases are often devastating and difficult to treat and effective drug delivery remains a significant challenge Infusion of drugs nto the brain parenchyma using convection enhanced delivery CED allows direct treatment of lesions circumventing the bl ...