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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major barriers to preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) are its unknown pathogenesis/etiology and the lack of an objective, sensitive and specific biomarker of the disease, particularly at the early stageswhen therapeutic interventions would likely have the greatest efficacy. The basic hypothesis of this application is that plasma levels of a ...

ABSTRACTApproximatelypeople in the United States have been diagnosed with a primary brain tumorOf thesemalignant gliomasMGsaccount for approximatelyof all intracranial tumorswith an overall patient survival rate of onlyMore than any other cancerbrain cancer has lasting physicalcognitiveand psychological impacts on a patient s lifeand the highest per patient initial cost of careSurgical resection r ...

ABSTRACT Approximately 700,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with a primary brain tumor. Of these, malignant gliomas (MGs) account for approximately 40% of all intracranial tumors, with an overall survival rate of only ~34%. Surgical resection remains the cornerstone of therapy and the extent of resection correlates with survival. Fluorescence imaging has emerged as an adjunctive techn ...

? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Phase I STTR project is to establish the feasibility of developing a small-molecule therapeutic agent designed to prevent rhabdomyolysis-induced renal failure. Rhabdomyolysis accounts for 7% to 10% of cases of renal failure in the US. Rhabdomyolysis results from muscle injury that leads to the release of myoglobin, which is then deposited ...

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's description) Combinatorial methods for the synthesis of new drug substances require high throughput techniques for evaluation of structure-activity relationships. Microliter plates with immobilized target receptors can rapidly reduce thousands of possibilities to hundreds of candidates. The next level of screening has proven to be mor ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Fontan procedure is currently standard care for patients with complex single ventricle congenital heart defects. The Fontan procedure involves the creation of a cavopulmonary (CP) shunt connecting the inferior and superior vena cava (IVC and SVC) directly to the right pulmonary artery (RPA), diverting total venous return from the IVC/SVC directly to the PA ...

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Project Summary AbstractThe objective of this proposal is to perform proof of concept experiments for a new thin walledsteerable sheath that can pass through a standard colonoscope port and dexterously maneuver surgical instruments at its tipClinical significance comes from the fact that overpatients per year in the USA have unnecessaryinvasive surgery to remove a section of their colonClinical li ...

Because of its high sensitivity polymerase chain reaction PCR is the gold standard for the diagnosis of many infectious diseases but generally only implemented in well equipped laboratories One of the major roadblocks for expanding PCR to point of care markets is the lack of simple robust single tube PCR designs which preserve its laboratory based high sensitivity and specificity In this F ...