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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop an automated screen for small molecules that modulate insulin promoter activity. The assay is based upon a mouse insulinoma, MIN6, that normally expresses insulin mRNA. This cell was engineered to stably contain two cassettes that use a fluorescent reporter protein to monitor insulin promoter activity and a housekeeping gene activity. The ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Lung disease is America's third largest cause of death. Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) afflicts approximately 150,000 patients every year in the US. Lung disease costs the American economy $148 billion yearly in total expenditures. While treatment for heart disease and cancer has been marked by a significant fall in their rates of death (36.6% for h ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose clinical evaluation and optimization studies of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (TR-LIFS) technique for the intraoperative identification of tumor vs. normal brain during neurosurgical resection of brain tumors. A critical need currently for neurosurgeons operating on infiltrative glial neoplasms is the ability to distinguish between normal ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to develop antibody therapeutics to treat life-threatening flavivirus infections. Our working hypothesis is that antibodies recognizing specific, highly conserved envelope protein epitopes can prevent and treat infection by several different flaviviruses, including all four serotypes of dengue virus and West Nile virus (WNV). ...

Abstract Currentlyclinically used drug abuse medications exist for treatment of addiction to opiatesalcoholand nicotinebut not cocaineThe objective of the proposed project is to test the hypothesis that the partial kappa agonist PPLcan be effective as a pharmacotherapy for treatment of cocaine abuseBecause of chronic drug induced changes in the kappa opioid receptor systemkappa receptor directed c ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal will lead to identification of gene variants that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The underlying hypothesis is that systematic genetics conducted in model organisms enables the identification of disease-specific gene modules. This hypothesis will be tested in Phase I through the following Aims: (1) Create a database of phen ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer study between Materia, Inc. and the University of Kansas is focused on the development of high-load, oligomeric reagents and scavenging agents derived from ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), one of several core metathesis technologies at Materia, Inc. The specific aims during Phase I focus on three are ...

Project Abstract Accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is essential for individualized treatment decisionsWith more recent advances in multiparametric magnetic resonance imagingmpMRIsuspicious cancer lesions can be identifiedCo registered MRI ultrasound fusion targeted biopsyMRF TBallows the sampling of specific lesions of concern within the prostate has emerged as the preferred diagnostic procedu ...

Measurement of cervical dilation during late pregnancy and labor informs decisions in the management of labor and deliveryPrior published research suggests that practitioners are onlytoaccurate when judging cervical simulatorsWhen measuring laboring womentwo practitionersandaposmeasurements agree onlyof the timeDrEva Martin of Elm Tree Medical Incdeveloped a novel deviceDilaCheckto enable practiti ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the proposed research is to develop methods to create immune protected universal donor cloned transgenic pigs for xenotransplantation. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) more than 30,000 organ transplants are performed in the US alone, yet greater than 95,000 people are currently on the waiting list to receive donors organs f ...